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Introducing Silver Branch Chaga. Drink Longevity. ...

2026-01-01T19:56:20Z

Introducing Silver Branch Chaga.
Drink Longevity.

Silver Branch Chaga (nprofile…n2hs)

Nice project https://stacker.news/items/1358403/r/billytheked

2025-12-20T06:44:28Z

Nice project

https://stacker.news/items/1358403/r/billytheked

A week in ~the_stacker_muse, a community of poets, writers and ...

2025-12-13T21:49:52Z

A week in ~the_stacker_muse, a community of poets, writers and bitcoiners.

Come one, come all.

https://stacker.news/items/1337173/r/billytheked

i dont quite understand this, but it is funny to me anyway ...

2025-11-16T21:52:37Z

i dont quite understand this, but it is funny to me anyway

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cool review #note1mvl…48ym

2025-11-16T21:50:53Z

cool review

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What if humanity could find some alien tech and thus greatly accelerate its own technological progress? But what if that tech was hoarded by a small group of people?

Anyway, here's a review of Theft of Fire by Devon Eriksen. It's a 22nd century hard science space opera set in our solar system, written by a retired engineer. One of the more successful indie sci fi books in recent years. It's also one of the most successful books to have bitcoin in it; it's a small background role, but bitcoin is one of the leading types of money in the solar system.

Marcus, an indebted down-on-his-luck asteroid miner (and secretly, a bit of a space pirate as of late, given how bad things have gotten) finds his ship taken over by a wealthy genetically modified corporate heiress named Miranda. She has bought his defaulting debt contract that his ship collateralizes, and has gained admin access over his ship's computer. And she knows he is secretly a space pirate, which altogether gives her multiple types of leverage over him. She wants him to take her on a mission to the edge of the solar system to do something she won't say, involving unimaginable treasure, and he has little choice but to go along with it. Secretly, however, he plots how to regain control of his ship as they go, because he recognizes how much of a suicide mission it is because of who guards the space out there.

Pros:

-The hard scientific realism in the book is great. The type that basically takes an engineer to write. No wonder he has endorsements from like, the co-founder of Autocad and such. It's also a smooth read, all from Marcus's perspective.

-Although the story mostly takes place on one ship with a few characters, the worldbuilding is a solid start. I assume it'll be expanded later in the series. The technological situation and structure of society are very fleshed out relative to how little we actually see, given the tight setting. The world feels realistic and lived-in.

-High nostalgia factor. Fans of Firefly and Cowboy Bebop, and more recently the Expanse, and all sorts of classic sci fi literature over decades, will find a lot of references or similarities in a good way. The author is very well-read on the genre.

-The audiobook is pretty unique and great. Unlike most audiobooks, it has a full-cast production, meaning that each line of dialogue sounds like the person speaking it, rather than just one person reading a given chapter's narration and dialogue. I listened to this one rather than read it. You can only buy the audiobook on the author's website though, not Amazon/Audible. (Amazon/Audible have been kind of shitty to authors lately.) The other version of the book are available on Amazon.

-AI gets a really good treatment here, and the third main character, an AI, is my favorite character in the book.

-There's a lot of suspense throughout. Most of it is not really predictable how it's going to end since it doesn't follow a basic tropey structure. Even if you don't particularly like some of the characters (and indeed they're designed to be rather unlikable), you're likely to find yourself reading further to see what happens.

Cons:

-The book is about 500 pages, and I think 50+ could have been cut out of the middle to make it stronger. The dialogue between Marcus and Miranda gets rather repetitive after a while. And because of the limited setting (mostly on one ship), most of the worldbuilding is done via exposition by Marcus. So if readers hate "info dumps", they'll probably get annoyed at this. I personally don't really mind exposition as long as it's good, so this wasn't a dealbreaker for me (the "don't do exposition!" advice to authors is overdone in my view). I just think the middle could have used a trim. And although most of the book is not predictable, one aspect imo very much is, and that's where a lot of the repetition is.

-There are some unnerving aspects/scenes in it. I can't really say what they are without spoilers. Let's just say being in Marcus's head for 500 pages isn't, uh, my cup of tea. The book is self-aware about it, though. It's an intentional choice to have put these unnerving aspects in, so it's not a con per se but it's more something that will put off some readers. And it's a little more understandable by the end.

Overall, a unique story. And for the audiobook, I do think that over time more audiobooks will be made with this more complete type of cast. Audiobooks used to be very expensive and a small piece of the market, and only in recent years have they become very popular. As they become a bigger and bigger share of the fiction market up to some substantial percentage, I think more work will go into their quality and details.

true #note18qz…d2wr

2025-11-14T13:37:07Z

true

quoting
note18qz…d2wr
Every cycle, salesmen try to separate you from your UTXOs.
"We’re gonna help you accumulate more Bitcoin…"

But you can’t fool a wise pleb twice.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Work on yourself.
Build skills.
Provide value to the marketplace.
Earn, save, and spend Bitcoin.

This is the way.

Ask @nprofile…ad8w

2025-10-06T17:24:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…sckp
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Ask LynAlden (nprofile…ad8w)

@hal the answer is no nothing stops this train

2025-10-06T17:17:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…0avk
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@hal the answer is no nothing stops this train

@nprofile…deta does anything stop this train?

2025-10-06T17:16:12Z

hal (nprofile…deta) does anything stop this train?

https://stacker.news/items/1239366/r/billytheked

2025-09-27T15:18:04Z

https://stacker.news/items/1239366/r/billytheked

@nprofile…wmsc mek a tutorial abt SN Ben or the lil girl gets ...

2025-09-03T18:13:53Z

BTCsessions (nprofile…wmsc)

mek a tutorial abt SN Ben or the lil girl gets it 🙋‍♀️🔫

https://stacker.news/items/1205542/r/billytheked

Examples?

2025-08-23T03:27:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…azqy
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Examples?

more about the creators of South Park ...

2025-07-25T14:37:34Z

more about the creators of South Park
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-consistency-of-their-genius-7c1

i liked the author's point about anti-celebrities, or people whose works precede their personalities. there are many other examples one could have chosen, (banksy, daft punk, satoshi....) to compare Stone and Parker to, but i guess the weren't talking about anonymity, but rather understated-ness.

> That those brand names are more recognizable than their creators — Matt Stone and Trey Parker, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe — tells you something of what they have in common: a commitment to their own unique creativity, rather than their fame, and the discipline and grit to explore it for decades. Anti-celebrities, in their time but never of it, perfectionist but unafraid of failure, these two duos are proof, it seems to me, that a democratic culture, even one as decadent as ours, can still spawn excellence and intelligence, spanning high and low, and generating what I can only call joy.

i'll admit here that i haven't watched much of South Park, but i have heard of some of the antics the show has caused, and am abundantly familiar with the joke that "gingers have no souls." this must be my signal to start watching a little more, as now i've heard it come up a handful of times in the past week.

> And in two decades of an acutely polarized and politicized culture, what team is South Park on? Precisely. You can’t tell, can you? — which is a staggering achievement in its own right. And it’s not about risk-aversion: the duo was targeted by Islamist terror and [didn’t blink](https://www.mtv.com/news/o0rfoh/south-park-creators-say-muhammad-episode-was-censored-without-their-approval). They also took on the censors at the MPAA — savor this memo — and obliterated one of George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV” by saying [“shit”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ntZQl9vRmw) 162 times in one episode.

obviosly the writer of this piece is a fan, and biased though it may be, there are some interesting insights embedded therein. again, i'll have to watch more for myself to verify these claims. but i am intrigued.

> They have done all this, taken no prisoners, and remain uncancellable. Why? Because their mockery is genuinely universal (including themselves), their courage is real, and because they remain humane. ...
Matt and Trey are also huge sell-outs who haven’t actually sold out: incredibly shrewd from the get-go in controlling and owning their creation, they have massively monetized it since without ever compromising an iota. Paramount paid them [$900 million](https://stacker.news/items/1050472/r/unschooled) for their latest contract. And they’ve done all this without ever parroting the piety of some mega-stars and by doggedly retaining their personal privacy.

as i mentiond at the beginning of the post, the tie-in to the Pet Shop Boys at the end could have been replaced for any number of other artists/creators, although i can see the relevance here.

https://stacker.news/items/1053999

more about the creators of South Park ...

2025-07-25T14:36:55Z

more about the creators of South Park
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-consistency-of-their-genius-7c1

i liked the author's point about anti-celebrities, or people whose works precede their personalities. there are many other examples one could have chosen, (banksy, daft punk, satoshi....) to compare Stone and Parker to, but i guess the weren't talking about anonymity, but rather understated-ness.

> That those brand names are more recognizable than their creators — Matt Stone and Trey Parker, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe — tells you something of what they have in common: a commitment to their own unique creativity, rather than their fame, and the discipline and grit to explore it for decades. Anti-celebrities, in their time but never of it, perfectionist but unafraid of failure, these two duos are proof, it seems to me, that a democratic culture, even one as decadent as ours, can still spawn excellence and intelligence, spanning high and low, and generating what I can only call joy.

i'll admit here that i haven't watched much of South Park, but i have heard of some of the antics the show has caused, and am abundantly familiar with the joke that "gingers have no souls." this must be my signal to start watching a little more, as now i've heard it come up a handful of times in the past week.

> And in two decades of an acutely polarized and politicized culture, what team is South Park on? Precisely. You can’t tell, can you? — which is a staggering achievement in its own right. And it’s not about risk-aversion: the duo was targeted by Islamist terror and [didn’t blink](https://www.mtv.com/news/o0rfoh/south-park-creators-say-muhammad-episode-was-censored-without-their-approval). They also took on the censors at the MPAA — savor this memo — and obliterated one of George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV” by saying [“shit”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ntZQl9vRmw) 162 times in one episode.

obviosly the writer of this piece is a fan, and biased though it may be, there are some interesting insights embedded therein. again, i'll have to watch more for myself to verify these claims. but i am intrigued.

> They have done all this, taken no prisoners, and remain uncancellable. Why? Because their mockery is genuinely universal (including themselves), their courage is real, and because they remain humane. ...
Matt and Trey are also huge sell-outs who haven’t actually sold out: incredibly shrewd from the get-go in controlling and owning their creation, they have massively monetized it since without ever compromising an iota. Paramount paid them [$900 million](https://stacker.news/items/1050472/r/unschooled) for their latest contract. And they’ve done all this without ever parroting the piety of some mega-stars and by doggedly retaining their personal privacy.

as i mentiond at the beginning of the post, the tie-in to the Pet Shop Boys could have been replaced for any number of other artists/creators, although i can see the relevance here.

https://stacker.news/items/1053999

more about the creators of South Park ...

2025-07-25T14:35:44Z

more about the creators of South Park
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-consistency-of-their-genius-7c1

i liked the author's point about anti-celebrities, or people whose works precede their personalities. there are many other examples one could have chosen, (banksy, daft punk, satoshi....) to compare Stone and Parker to, but i guess the weren't talking about anonymity, but rather understated-ness.

> That those brand names are more recognizable than their creators — Matt Stone and Trey Parker, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe — tells you something of what they have in common: a commitment to their own unique creativity, rather than their fame, and the discipline and grit to explore it for decades. Anti-celebrities, in their time but never of it, perfectionist but unafraid of failure, these two duos are proof, it seems to me, that a democratic culture, even one as decadent as ours, can still spawn excellence and intelligence, spanning high and low, and generating what I can only call joy.

i'll admit here that i haven't watched much of south park, but i have heard of some of the antics the show has caused, and am abundantly familiar with the joke that gingers have no souls. this must be my signal to start watching a little more, as now i've heard it come up a handful of times in the past week.

> And in two decades of an acutely polarized and politicized culture, what team is South Park on? Precisely. You can’t tell, can you? — which is a staggering achievement in its own right. And it’s not about risk-aversion: the duo was targeted by Islamist terror and [didn’t blink](https://www.mtv.com/news/o0rfoh/south-park-creators-say-muhammad-episode-was-censored-without-their-approval). They also took on the censors at the MPAA — savor this memo — and obliterated one of George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV” by saying [“shit”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ntZQl9vRmw) 162 times in one episode.

obviosly the writer of this piece is a fan, and biased though it may be, there are some interesting insights embedded therein. again, i'll have to watch more for myself to verify these claims. but i am intrigued.

> They have done all this, taken no prisoners, and remain uncancellable. Why? Because their mockery is genuinely universal (including themselves), their courage is real, and because they remain humane. ...
Matt and Trey are also huge sell-outs who haven’t actually sold out: incredibly shrewd from the get-go in controlling and owning their creation, they have massively monetized it since without ever compromising an iota. Paramount paid them [$900 million](https://stacker.news/items/1050472/r/unschooled) for their latest contract. And they’ve done all this without ever parroting the piety of some mega-stars and by doggedly retaining their personal privacy.

as i mentiond at the beginning of the post, the tie-in to the Pet Shop Boys could have been replaced for any number of other artists/creators, although i can see the relevance here.

https://stacker.news/items/1053999

more about the creators of South Park ...

2025-07-25T14:35:05Z

more about the creators of South Park
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-consistency-of-their-genius-7c1

i liked the author's point about anti-celebrities, or people whose works precede their personalities. there are many other examples the could have chosen, (banksy, daft punk, satoshi....) to compare Stone and Parker to, but i guess the weren't talking about anonymity, only understatedness.

> That those brand names are more recognizable than their creators — Matt Stone and Trey Parker, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe — tells you something of what they have in common: a commitment to their own unique creativity, rather than their fame, and the discipline and grit to explore it for decades. Anti-celebrities, in their time but never of it, perfectionist but unafraid of failure, these two duos are proof, it seems to me, that a democratic culture, even one as decadent as ours, can still spawn excellence and intelligence, spanning high and low, and generating what I can only call joy.

i'll admit here that i haven't watched much of south park, but i have heard of some of the antics the show has caused, and am abundantly familiar with the joke that gingers have no souls. this must be my signal to start watching a little more, as now i've heard it come up a handful of times in the past week.

> And in two decades of an acutely polarized and politicized culture, what team is South Park on? Precisely. You can’t tell, can you? — which is a staggering achievement in its own right. And it’s not about risk-aversion: the duo was targeted by Islamist terror and [didn’t blink](https://www.mtv.com/news/o0rfoh/south-park-creators-say-muhammad-episode-was-censored-without-their-approval). They also took on the censors at the MPAA — savor this memo — and obliterated one of George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV” by saying [“shit”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ntZQl9vRmw) 162 times in one episode.

obviosly the writer of this piece is a fan, and biased though it may be, there are some interesting insights embedded therein. again, i'll have to watch more for myself to verify these claims. but i am intrigued.

> They have done all this, taken no prisoners, and remain uncancellable. Why? Because their mockery is genuinely universal (including themselves), their courage is real, and because they remain humane. ...
Matt and Trey are also huge sell-outs who haven’t actually sold out: incredibly shrewd from the get-go in controlling and owning their creation, they have massively monetized it since without ever compromising an iota. Paramount paid them [$900 million](https://stacker.news/items/1050472/r/unschooled) for their latest contract. And they’ve done all this without ever parroting the piety of some mega-stars and by doggedly retaining their personal privacy.

as i mentiond at the beginning of the post, the tie-in to the Pet Shop Boys could have been replaced for any number of other artists/creators, although i can see the relevance here.

https://stacker.news/items/1053999

more about the creators of South Park ...

2025-07-25T14:34:42Z

more about the creators of South Park
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-consistency-of-their-genius-7c1

i liked this point about anti-celebrities, or people whose works precede their personalities. there are many other examples the could have chosen, (banksy, daft punk, satoshi....) to compare Stone and Parker to, but i guess the weren't talking about anonymity, only understatedness.

> That those brand names are more recognizable than their creators — Matt Stone and Trey Parker, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe — tells you something of what they have in common: a commitment to their own unique creativity, rather than their fame, and the discipline and grit to explore it for decades. Anti-celebrities, in their time but never of it, perfectionist but unafraid of failure, these two duos are proof, it seems to me, that a democratic culture, even one as decadent as ours, can still spawn excellence and intelligence, spanning high and low, and generating what I can only call joy.

i'll admit here that i haven't watched much of south park, but i have heard of some of the antics the show has caused, and am abundantly familiar with the joke that gingers have no souls. this must be my signal to start watching a little more, as now i've heard it come up a handful of times in the past week.

> And in two decades of an acutely polarized and politicized culture, what team is South Park on? Precisely. You can’t tell, can you? — which is a staggering achievement in its own right. And it’s not about risk-aversion: the duo was targeted by Islamist terror and [didn’t blink](https://www.mtv.com/news/o0rfoh/south-park-creators-say-muhammad-episode-was-censored-without-their-approval). They also took on the censors at the MPAA — savor this memo — and obliterated one of George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV” by saying [“shit”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ntZQl9vRmw) 162 times in one episode.

obviosly the writer of this piece is a fan, and biased though it may be, there are some interesting insights embedded therein. again, i'll have to watch more for myself to verify these claims. but i am intrigued.

> They have done all this, taken no prisoners, and remain uncancellable. Why? Because their mockery is genuinely universal (including themselves), their courage is real, and because they remain humane. ...
Matt and Trey are also huge sell-outs who haven’t actually sold out: incredibly shrewd from the get-go in controlling and owning their creation, they have massively monetized it since without ever compromising an iota. Paramount paid them [$900 million](https://stacker.news/items/1050472/r/unschooled) for their latest contract. And they’ve done all this without ever parroting the piety of some mega-stars and by doggedly retaining their personal privacy.

as i mentiond at the beginning of the post, the tie-in to the Pet Shop Boys could have been replaced for any number of other artists/creators, although i can see the relevance here.

https://stacker.news/items/1053999

more about the creators of South Park ...

2025-07-25T14:34:14Z

more about the creators of South Park
https://substack.com/home/post/p-145106924

i liked this point about anti-celebrities, or people whose works precede their personalities. there are many other examples the could have chosen, (banksy, daft punk, satoshi....) to compare Stone and Parker to, but i guess the weren't talking about anonymity, only understatedness.

> That those brand names are more recognizable than their creators — Matt Stone and Trey Parker, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe — tells you something of what they have in common: a commitment to their own unique creativity, rather than their fame, and the discipline and grit to explore it for decades. Anti-celebrities, in their time but never of it, perfectionist but unafraid of failure, these two duos are proof, it seems to me, that a democratic culture, even one as decadent as ours, can still spawn excellence and intelligence, spanning high and low, and generating what I can only call joy.

i'll admit here that i haven't watched much of south park, but i have heard of some of the antics the show has caused, and am abundantly familiar with the joke that gingers have no souls. this must be my signal to start watching a little more, as now i've heard it come up a handful of times in the past week.

> And in two decades of an acutely polarized and politicized culture, what team is South Park on? Precisely. You can’t tell, can you? — which is a staggering achievement in its own right. And it’s not about risk-aversion: the duo was targeted by Islamist terror and [didn’t blink](https://www.mtv.com/news/o0rfoh/south-park-creators-say-muhammad-episode-was-censored-without-their-approval). They also took on the censors at the MPAA — savor this memo — and obliterated one of George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV” by saying [“shit”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ntZQl9vRmw) 162 times in one episode.

obviosly the writer of this piece is a fan, and biased though it may be, there are some interesting insights embedded therein. again, i'll have to watch more for myself to verify these claims. but i am intrigued.

> They have done all this, taken no prisoners, and remain uncancellable. Why? Because their mockery is genuinely universal (including themselves), their courage is real, and because they remain humane. ...
Matt and Trey are also huge sell-outs who haven’t actually sold out: incredibly shrewd from the get-go in controlling and owning their creation, they have massively monetized it since without ever compromising an iota. Paramount paid them [$900 million](https://stacker.news/items/1050472/r/unschooled) for their latest contract. And they’ve done all this without ever parroting the piety of some mega-stars and by doggedly retaining their personal privacy.

as i mentiond at the beginning of the post, the tie-in to the Pet Shop Boys could have been replaced for any number of other artists/creators, although i can see the relevance here.

https://stacker.news/items/1053999

[more about the creators of South Park] The Consistency Of Their ...

2025-07-25T14:33:40Z

[more about the creators of South Park] The Consistency Of Their Genius (2024)
https://substack.com/home/post/p-145106924

i liked this point about anti-celebrities, or people whose works precede their personalities. there are many other examples the could have chosen, (banksy, daft punk, satoshi....) to compare Stone and Parker to, but i guess the weren't talking about anonymity, only understatedness.

> That those brand names are more recognizable than their creators — Matt Stone and Trey Parker, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe — tells you something of what they have in common: a commitment to their own unique creativity, rather than their fame, and the discipline and grit to explore it for decades. Anti-celebrities, in their time but never of it, perfectionist but unafraid of failure, these two duos are proof, it seems to me, that a democratic culture, even one as decadent as ours, can still spawn excellence and intelligence, spanning high and low, and generating what I can only call joy.

i'll admit here that i haven't watched much of south park, but i have heard of some of the antics the show has caused, and am abundantly familiar with the joke that gingers have no souls. this must be my signal to start watching a little more, as now i've heard it come up a handful of times in the past week.

> And in two decades of an acutely polarized and politicized culture, what team is South Park on? Precisely. You can’t tell, can you? — which is a staggering achievement in its own right. And it’s not about risk-aversion: the duo was targeted by Islamist terror and [didn’t blink](https://www.mtv.com/news/o0rfoh/south-park-creators-say-muhammad-episode-was-censored-without-their-approval). They also took on the censors at the MPAA — savor this memo — and obliterated one of George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV” by saying [“shit”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ntZQl9vRmw) 162 times in one episode.

obviosly the writer of this piece is a fan, and biased though it may be, there are some interesting insights embedded therein. again, i'll have to watch more for myself to verify these claims. but i am intrigued.

> They have done all this, taken no prisoners, and remain uncancellable. Why? Because their mockery is genuinely universal (including themselves), their courage is real, and because they remain humane. ...
Matt and Trey are also huge sell-outs who haven’t actually sold out: incredibly shrewd from the get-go in controlling and owning their creation, they have massively monetized it since without ever compromising an iota. Paramount paid them [$900 million](https://stacker.news/items/1050472/r/unschooled) for their latest contract. And they’ve done all this without ever parroting the piety of some mega-stars and by doggedly retaining their personal privacy.

as i mentiond at the beginning of the post, the tie-in to the Pet Shop Boys could have been replaced for any number of other artists/creators, although i can see the relevance here.

https://stacker.news/items/1053999

The Missing Bitcoin Billionaire https://youtu.be/soL7jaSK-aI? ...

2025-07-18T17:32:17Z

The Missing Bitcoin Billionaire
https://youtu.be/soL7jaSK-aI?

Some pretty cool journalism being done here, nice work Joe!

https://stacker.news/items/1044772

The Missing Bitcoin Billionaire ...

2025-07-18T17:29:42Z

The Missing Bitcoin Billionaire
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp7x5yyj2wtkcnztzg7kezt68m4m2c6mvm5g0u9u0tcz2el4dp49zqqsg98x6d4wpqjkhsqrr8nvww9kz2kqejmfvgqr5uh2xy43erp5ld9qmclwky

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp7x5yyj2wtkcnztzg7kezt68m4m2c6mvm5g0u9u0tcz2el4dp49zqqsg98x6d4wpqjkhsqrr8nvww9kz2kqejmfvgqr5uh2xy43erp5ld9qmclwky

Some pretty cool journalism being done here, nice work Joe!

https://stacker.news/items/1044772

it feels a bit Bradburyesque, does it not?

2025-07-18T17:21:23Z

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it feels a bit Bradburyesque, does it not?

i think it is very cool! i'm worried it might send the wrong ...

2025-07-18T16:34:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…qpyg
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i think it is very cool! i'm worried it might send the wrong message lumping it in with these other projects

Nostr event nevent1qqsq5fr9zxydkjdfmrvdn6mk4ttwkng27vax9m0va4t8s97hg7ey04czypyf3lszmfu6mxg09n803m05xu4uype26p6y54epejv8e722u3ktqm44w5d

2025-07-17T12:17:48Z

am i doing this right?

Lovely work

2025-07-04T15:42:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…jvam
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Lovely work

[newsletter] The Recurring Raccoon ii ...

2025-06-30T15:10:01Z

[newsletter] The Recurring Raccoon ii
https://the-recurring-raccoon.ghost.io/the-recurring-raccoon-ii/

still haven't gotten rocky on sn, but he keeps publishing his newsletter on ghost.

![](https://m.stacker.news/98560)

> # Weekly Ramble
> Rocky had been a teacher for several years, which was not quite long enough that he felt any compulsion to do it deep in the marrow of his bones, like his colleague Pan talked about, but for quite enough time that if he were to suddenly stop, it might cause a mild upset in his mood, particularly because he didn’t like interruptions in the way he goes about his day. After all, the profession is nothing like it would have been prior to the Great Reorientation. _He should feel lucky that he’d been able to keep his job, and should take whatever they were willing to offer him, and should do whatever work they deemed fashionable, and should do it all with great big dumb smile._ But that wouldn’t be an option, not with the way he saw things.\
In fact, Rocky had ‘off-ramp’ planned, but to pull the trigger was another matter.\
At any rate, wearing his orange tinted glasses, blinds drawn in his dim-lighted office, he wrote.
>> _‘There came a point in everyone’s lives, consider it well, where they no longer had to reckon with the comforting dread that shackles the individual to a routine and sedates them with a dose of Protestant work ethic. The carrot is poisoned, and the stick swapped out for bombs. Life suspended mid air like a silk worm swaying in the breeze, yet, everything still seemed to get done. It is hard, devastatingly so, that a warrior should be asked to lay down his sword, even when he is promised a life of luxury. Even harder is it for the average bloke, whose life will not include the luxury of a battle-hardened hero, but the dread and weight of a life he never planned nor imagined.’_

[Continue reading...](https://the-recurring-raccoon.ghost.io/the-recurring-raccoon-ii/)

https://stacker.news/items/1019260

Nick Szabo - The Many Traditions of Non Governmental Money (pt i) ...

2025-06-28T15:11:44Z

Nick Szabo - The Many Traditions of Non Governmental Money (pt i)
https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-many-traditions-of-non-governmental.html

Nick Szabo's blog doesn't seem to have been shared here yet.

> The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out [“educational material”](https://files.stlouisfed.org/research/publications/page1-econ/2018/03/01/bitcoin-money-or-financial-investment_SE.pdf) on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). The Bitcoin parts are odd enough, but this and a subsequent blog post will focus on the following statement: “traditionally, currency is produced by a nation's government.“ Is that a fair representation of monetary traditions? At the very least it is quite incomplete. This two-part series will proceed back in time, showing some of the many examples non-governmental money, in order to fill in some of the gaps.

https://stacker.news/items/1017879

The Many Traditions of Non Governmental Money (pt i) ...

2025-06-28T15:09:25Z

The Many Traditions of Non Governmental Money (pt i)
https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-many-traditions-of-non-governmental.html

Nick Szabo's blog doesn't seem to have been shared here yet.

> The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has put out [“educational material”](https://files.stlouisfed.org/research/publications/page1-econ/2018/03/01/bitcoin-money-or-financial-investment_SE.pdf) on Bitcoin for teachers and students (including a quiz!). The Bitcoin parts are odd enough, but this and a subsequent blog post will focus on the following statement: “traditionally, currency is produced by a nation's government.“ Is that a fair representation of monetary traditions? At the very least it is quite incomplete. This two-part series will proceed back in time, showing some of the many examples non-governmental money, in order to fill in some of the gaps.

https://stacker.news/items/1017879

Recap of the deficit situation - Lyn Alden ...

2025-06-27T19:54:24Z

Recap of the deficit situation - Lyn Alden
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp64suatdx2uqhn2xfu7cgjuqgqcrqadp864uxkv6wckf43atj860qyfhwumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetn9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcqyrg0f23v3zuu7vjvglg3wh5qq7j8p0ym22ly0ake0902j8d6hx04yzzvgtu

https://stacker.news/items/1017398

I Asked ChatGPT To Explain Bitcoin to Me Like I’m 12 — ...

2025-06-27T18:17:17Z

I Asked ChatGPT To Explain Bitcoin to Me Like I’m 12 — Here’s What It Said
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/asked-chatgpt-explain-bitcoin-m-220105789.html

unbelievable the caliber that it takes to be considered real journalism nowadays.....
> The AI explained: “It’s kind of like if Pokémon cards could be used to buy snacks, and everyone agreed which ones were real using a magical book.”\
Putting it this way makes bitcoin ***ultra-relatable***. “Let’s say you’re trading Pokémon cards at lunch. You write it down in a big shared notebook that the whole school uses to keep track of trades. That way, no one can say later, ‘I didn’t agree to that!'”

https://stacker.news/items/1017295

The unschooled network had grown by one newsletter. Working on ...

2025-06-26T12:18:09Z

The unschooled network had grown by one newsletter. Working on getting Rocky on Nostr.

https://the-recurring-raccoon.ghost.io/ghost/#/site

Thanks for sharing. Sober takes are scarce, I'm finding. ...

2025-06-23T00:40:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…3rj7
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Thanks for sharing. Sober takes are scarce, I'm finding.
Here's another: https://rumble.com/v6v649p-breaking-trump-enters-israels-war-with-iran.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_f

Watch how the leaves of a plant slowly fall away, trust that this ...

2025-06-19T11:50:05Z

Watch how the leaves of a plant slowly fall away,
trust that this is you, and those things in your life, unneeded,
fall away too

Nostr event nevent1qqsgk2lcdvvxej5j0qdt9sz6s6v9ze7dvhj5nxg8y24fneslld5wqcszypyf3lszmfu6mxg09n803m05xu4uype26p6y54epejv8e722u3ktqu7v420

2025-06-19T01:10:20Z

we are all unschooled bitcoiners

#nevent1q…deyc

2025-06-17T01:13:40Z

quoting
nevent1q…deyc
Pray For IRAN 🙏

Not your keys nor your coins: https://stacker.news/items/1007405

2025-06-16T10:59:47Z

Not your keys nor your coins:

https://stacker.news/items/1007405

https://stacker.news/items/1005990/r/unschooled

2025-06-14T03:23:58Z

https://stacker.news/items/1005990/r/unschooled

Nostr event nevent1qqs20lk3xqm8qzzgr2fr7qlxfznur4ll79zlufu2tdkku046q00zaaszypyf3lszmfu6mxg09n803m05xu4uype26p6y54epejv8e722u3ktqcvsnqr

2025-06-14T02:48:56Z

Bitcoin meetups are better than podcasts. Get out there and meet. up.

Reposting to revisit later #nevent1q…6f48

2025-06-14T02:45:42Z

Reposting to revisit later

quoting
nevent1q…6f48
A very detailed self hosting guide I recently came across.
https://wiki.futo.org/

Thanks for coming out!

2025-06-14T02:43:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…pyy4
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Thanks for coming out!

🚨Pop-up Windsor Bitcoiners meetup happening tonight at ...

2025-06-12T16:09:26Z

🚨Pop-up Windsor Bitcoiners meetup happening tonight at 6:00pm🚨
Please reach out for event coordinates.

Small bounty for sage advice: ...

2025-06-12T11:51:34Z

Small bounty for sage advice:

https://stacker.news/items/1004327/r/unschooled

Maybe Arjen (nprofile…s0t0) or pleblab (nprofile…9274)?

Summarized the discussion here: ...

2025-06-11T13:36:49Z

Summarized the discussion here:

https://primal.net/a/naddr1qqrrjwfc8ymrxq3qfzv0uqk60xkejrevemuwmaph90pqw2ksw399wgwvnp70jjhydjcqxpqqqp65wpxsen5

quoting
nevent1q…55ay
Freedom movements need security and privacy, which is why MLS on Nostr is an important project.

I attended the call hosted by nprofile1qqspwwwexlwgcrrnwz4zwkze8rq3ncjug8mvgsd96dxx6wzs8ccndmcpz4mhxue69uhkzat5dqhxummnw3erztnrdakszgnhwden5te0ve5kcar9wghxummnw3ezuamfdejn7emvda3xzmpav9kxc9tjj6gand (nprofile…gand) learned a lot.

Freedom movements need security and privacy, which is why MLS on ...

2025-06-11T13:29:43Z

Freedom movements need security and privacy, which is why MLS on Nostr is an important project.

I attended the call hosted by nprofile1qqspwwwexlwgcrrnwz4zwkze8rq3ncjug8mvgsd96dxx6wzs8ccndmcpz4mhxue69uhkzat5dqhxummnw3erztnrdakszgnhwden5te0ve5kcar9wghxummnw3ezuamfdejn7emvda3xzmpav9kxc9tjj6gand (nprofile…gand) learned a lot.

Incredible minds #naddr1qv…2gl2

2025-06-06T16:46:27Z

Incredible minds

quoting
naddr1qv…2gl2

I had a bit of extra time this week to attend a call organized by npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc regarding a privacy focused project he's been working on for the last year-or-so. Shout-out to npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy for encouraging me to do so, pushing my somewhat out of my comfort zone in reporting on technical updates.

Also, if you know of or are involved in similar dev calls and would like a report done, please reach out and feel free to share calendar updates.

--npub1f4www6qjx43mckpkjld4apyyr76j3aahprvkduh9gc5xec78ypmsmakqh9 would be awesome to see this talked about on SNL later today, as it seems to be a very important/overlooked project for the future of privacy, nostr and bitcoin broadly.

Anyway, here's the unschooled report--my technical explanations may sometimes be scant, but I've done my best to provide more qualified sources where necessary.

Bringing Secure, Confidential Group Chats to Nostr - A Monthly MLS on Nostr Dev Call

Posted originally to Stacker News ~nostr territory

Developers met Tuesday, 3 Jun at 1600UTC at what would be the first of a monthly series of community calls to discuss updates and respond to questions about the implementation of the MLS (Messaging Layer Security) standard over nostr.

npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt, npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn, npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt and npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc among others attended and contributed to a discussion about the latter's research and development on implementing a new messaging standard on nostr using MLS.

The call highlighted some of the features of MLS, a relatively new (as of 2023) secure and confidential messaging and group-chat protocol standard. It is modeled to achieve a similar level of security as Signal, prioritizing forward-secrecy and post-compromise security, multi-device compatibility, as well as the ability to scale for large groups.

For those not familiar,

Forward secrecy means that encrypted content in the past remains encrypted even if key material is leaked.\ Post compromise security means that leaking key material doesn't allow an attacker to continue to read messages indefinitely into the future. ¹

Developers working on the project indicated that it will be an improvement on current instant-messaging standards commonly used by nostr clients, such as nip17, for a relatively simple implementation.

Those in attendance overall showed enthusiasm to push this project forward and developers interested are being encouraged to fork the the Nostr-MLS Rust Library to begin working it into their stack. Notably, jeffg and Hillebrand are keen to see new contributors work on the project.

Participants had the opportunity to ask technical questions about how the library handles some features as well as how to begin contributing.

Discussion also centered around issues with MLS (such as potential key-package rotation DOS attack vectors and de-syncing) as well as some key concepts for the new messaging standard such as how key-packages are signed by a users nsec and published to key-package inbox relays before being rotated.

Proofs of Concept

White Noise and 0xchat both have implemented MLS on nostr. These are the first to prove that the concept of secure-confidential group messaging is possible over the distributed nostr-relay protocol.

Learn More

jeffg has kept detailed project updates on his nostr account. Notably, the post MLS Over Nostr explains the vision he has for the project and his presentation The Past and Future of Messaging on Nostr (youtube) gives a high-level overview of messaging on nostr and the problems he is working to solve.

Follow npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc on your favourite nostr client for call updates.

Link to join.

Related:

Telegram Clone (sic) on Nostr: Live Demo by @DarthCoin

White Noise: Secure Messaging Over Nostr by @supratic

https://primal.net/jeffg/1719562889267

Can one listen in?

2025-06-04T12:51:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…va2e
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Can one listen in?

Woah #nevent1q…mmv5

2025-06-04T11:30:35Z

Woah

quoting
nevent1q…mmv5
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced today that federal charges have been filed against Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, a Chinese couple accused of smuggling a fungus identified as a “dangerous biological pathogen” into the United States.

Mr. Liu faces charges of conspiracy, smuggling goods, making false statements, and visa fraud after allegedly bringing the fungus Fusarium graminearum through Detroit Metropolitan Airport so that he and his partner, Ms. Jian, could study it further at a University of Michigan laboratory.

Fusarium graminearum, described in scientific literature as a “potential agroterrorism weapon,” causes disease in crops such as wheat, barley, maize, and rice, leading to potential crop devastation and health risks like vomiting and liver damage if ingested. It is blamed for “billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year.”

The complaint also alleges that both Liu and Jian received funding from the Chinese government for their research on the fungus while in China, with Ms. Jian reportedly being a committed member of the Chinese Communist Party.

https://stacker.news/items/982958/r/unschooled

2025-05-18T14:31:31Z

https://stacker.news/items/982958/r/unschooled

Lol

2025-05-18T14:30:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…k7dh
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Lol

https://fountain.fm/clip/TVwsLiOs1VqBy3gOfz2P

2025-05-15T11:51:28Z

https://fountain.fm/clip/TVwsLiOs1VqBy3gOfz2P

https://stacker.news/items/969274/r/unschooled

2025-05-02T13:48:03Z

https://stacker.news/items/969274/r/unschooled

You must be talking about their censorship of certain voices on ...

2025-04-29T12:36:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…wys4
_________________________

You must be talking about their censorship of certain voices on the Bitcoin Core repo cf
https://stacker.news/items/965828/r/unschooled

https://m.primal.net/QgSJ.jpg

2025-04-28T16:28:28Z

That was amazing how she just stumbled in there - what an ...

2025-04-27T14:56:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…w2cz
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That was amazing how she just stumbled in there - what an opportunity! 😃

Thanks @nprofile…lwjj, Your work prompted lots of great ideas ...

2025-04-27T14:55:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…qegu
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Thanks gladstein (nprofile…lwjj),
Your work prompted lots of great ideas for us. It was successful first meetup, hopefully of many to come.

Never stopping 🫡

Register here and I'll reach out to you with an invite link: ...

2025-04-27T14:51:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…62ku
_________________________

Register here and I'll reach out to you with an invite link:
https://btcpay.theunschooled.net/apps/3yScj15BnqDJybRiXTBAUVEHdPcY/pos

Thank you everyone who made it out to tonight's meetup. Was a ...

2025-04-25T23:47:54Z

Thank you everyone who made it out to tonight's meetup. Was a success, wouldn't you say something WedgeSocial (nprofile…nr6j)?

Looking forward to meeting in May!

*Never stopping*

https://stacker.news/items/958945/r/unschooled

2025-04-25T16:20:51Z

https://stacker.news/items/958945/r/unschooled

😂😂😂 Phew

2025-04-25T04:50:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…644d
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😂😂😂
Phew

These are awesome

2025-04-25T04:40:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…59y7
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These are awesome

https://stacker.news/items/957390/r/unschooled

2025-04-24T21:14:17Z

https://stacker.news/items/957390/r/unschooled

I often wondered why RSS isn't leveraged more on nostr, like ...

2025-04-24T20:29:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…q9s4
_________________________

I often wondered why RSS isn't leveraged more on nostr, like a better optimized rss reader client? I should take a page out of your book and try to vibe code something.

Nostr event nevent1qqsp3pgnyhx6jmuc779rzsjqsfpfrz0tqr8tkrhf0z8xqq86hvj3l5gzypyf3lszmfu6mxg09n803m05xu4uype26p6y54epejv8e722u3ktqa2xxcx

2025-04-24T20:09:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…5fjh
_________________________

Lol
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsgfpv68lz5hdu2wwm3r6tf3z8twn4cxgcexdv77k8rxnuvudattvcf55dvy

Misread your note

2025-04-24T19:59:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…0r5v
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Misread your note

Atomstr does this pretty well already.

2025-04-24T16:46:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…hqhr
_________________________

Atomstr does this pretty well already.

@nprofile…y0hd

2025-04-23T22:47:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…tcf5
_________________________

WedgeSocial (nprofile…y0hd)

https://theunschooled.bearblog.dev/meetups-and-events/ @ anyone ...

2025-04-23T22:46:42Z

https://theunschooled.bearblog.dev/meetups-and-events/

@ anyone who has registered, meetup location will be shared privately. Please monitor your dms.

Thanks for the mention this week @nprofile…cpvr in ...

2025-04-19T12:33:04Z

Thanks for the mention this week siggy47 (nprofile…cpvr) in https://stacker.news/items/948005/r/unschooled

Precoiner maxis 😈 we will get them!

2025-04-15T22:10:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…drah
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Precoiner maxis 😈 we will get them!

Perfect - tell ALL the shitcoiners they are invited, but only if ...

2025-04-15T21:32:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…7s5u
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Perfect - tell ALL the shitcoiners they are invited, but only if they are willing to be reformed!
I will share the location (will be in windsor) 48h before the event to the email you provided in the invoice. Lmk here if for some reason you don't get it.

I designed a 7 Days Bitcoin beginners course syllabus based ...

2025-04-02T04:35:04Z

I designed a 7 Days Bitcoin beginners course syllabus based strictly on the writing posted to Stacker.News

Share it with your no-coiner friends.

View here: https://theunschooled.bearblog.dev/stacker-news-based-course-intro-to-bitcoin-an-overview/

New blog link ...

2025-03-26T16:40:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…jkh8
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New blog link

https://theunschooled.bearblog.dev/about-the-unschooled-bitcoiners-meetups/

New blog link ...

2025-03-26T16:39:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…jkh8
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New blog link

https://theunschooled.bearblog.dev/about-the-unschooled-bitcoiners-meetups/

Thanks to the anonymous contributer 💞 ...

2025-03-25T13:31:08Z

Thanks to the anonymous contributer 💞

🚨Meetup Alert🚨 Attn: Bitcoiners in the Metro ...

2025-03-25T00:26:37Z

🚨Meetup Alert🚨

Attn: Bitcoiners in the Metro Detroit/Windsor, ON area

A meetup will be happening Friday April 25th.

Please share for all to see!

Exact location revealed in the Unschooled Telegram group on the week of the event (comment or dm for telegram invite link)

https://theunschoolednetwork.github.io/posts/Unschooled-Bitcoiners-Meetup/

Support the cause by donating sats here:

https://theunschoolednetwork.github.io/posts/Supporting-an-Unschooled-Future/

For fun, here's the poster I'll be putting up around town!

https://m.primal.net/PkpU.jpg

2025-03-18T23:55:16Z

https://stacker.news/items/914660/r/unschooled No excuses ...

2025-03-16T14:13:12Z

https://stacker.news/items/914660/r/unschooled

No excuses anymore. Start reading.

https://stacker.news/items/914398/r/unschooled

2025-03-16T02:27:16Z

https://stacker.news/items/914398/r/unschooled

DIY maple syrup https://m.primal.net/PhSJ.mp4

2025-03-16T01:39:37Z

DIY maple syrup

Nostr event nevent1qqsdmfwzlxkj3a0x5ttumprjunr24x8qxl6ul5wpnur72qv5wxcxekszypyf3lszmfu6mxg09n803m05xu4uype26p6y54epejv8e722u3ktqxyk494

2025-03-12T15:11:03Z

https://theunschoolednetwork.github.io/posts/SN-Home-Mining-Cost-Profitability-Calculator/

https://m.primal.net/PRPd.jpg

2025-03-02T17:49:01Z

https://m.primal.net/PROf.jpg

2025-03-02T17:29:06Z