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You should also hear your community when they tell you they don't support Core v30. Who do you think uses hardware wallets? Node runners, just in case. The ones moving the scale to Knots being at 21% of the network. If Blockstream is going to be running Core v30 and facilitating spam? If so, I will retract all my support. I will no longer recommend the jade when on boarding new bitcoiners to self-custody.

2025-09-19 17:06:00 UTC

On the latest episode of "What Bitcoin Did" @nprofile…2vts had Pete Rizzo and they touched on the Knots movement. Pete is either completely missing the real argument of the Knots camp or he is being obtuse and incoherent on purpose to straw man and downplay. Knots is a monetary maximalist movement. We do not want to relay non-monetary data. All monetary data is valid. We are not looking to censor monetary data. We ARE looking to censor non-monetary data. Core is looking to facilitate non-monetary data. Knots wants bitcoin to grow based on its monetary properties and function ONLY and not with a fiat mindset of let's do whatever we need to do to accelerate our "number go up" technology. Knots is willing to be patient and methodical to get to hyperbiconization in the right way. Bitcoin needs stewards. Bitcoin is not a divine entity that just "IS". Bitcoin is a tool, a great feat of civilization but nonetheless still a creation of humanity and therefor it needs human guidance.

2025-09-15 18:57:28 UTC

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Yea, yea, everyday. Please focus on the regulatory attack on privacy from the Trump admin to bitcoin self-custody, as well as the Core Spam attack on bitcoin. These things are more important than number go up in a captured system.

2025-09-12 16:17:57 UTC

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I think the battle is lost with KYC. KYC is only forced when you exchange fiat for bitcoin. If you only earn and spend in bitcoin in self-custody the privacy fight gets a big boost back. There is still the question of being able to track you once your address is pinpointed but that is where features like coinjoin becomes very useful. I think that creating the circular economy, never touching fiat, will help a lot. And all this that is happening might be the awakening moment we all need to actually start using bitcoin and only bitcoin as much as possible.

2025-09-07 14:42:07 UTC

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Yeah. A lot of the arguments from Core apologist are very reminiscent of Covid era elite logic. "Shut up and take the jab as the experts tell you too" = "Shut up and run Core as the experts tell you too".

2025-09-06 01:34:46 UTC

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2025-09-05 22:43:22 UTC

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@nprofile…xj5g Don't know if you have heard the CSAM argument against the filter elimination that is been discussed. Curious to know if this change your mind on the subject?
The v30+ Core update allowing 100k of arbitrary data would essentially permit imagery and low quality video/audio to be uploaded to mempools and mined in a block. This data could be something immoral and illegal, like explicit child sexual abuse material (CSAM). This would effectively turn every node and every node runner into a holder of illegal material and the network itself too, if it ever gets mined. This would eliminate and de-incentivize people from running nodes. Less nodes, less decentralization. One of the fundamental tenants of Bitcoin is destroyed at worst, greatly inhibited at best.
This would give governments a clear and clean line of attack to Bitcoin, one that becomes very difficult to morally and socially defend in the eye of the public. A line of attack that I consider to have the potential to be lethal to Bitcoin.
Interested in your thoughts.
#nevent1q…2thw

2025-09-03 19:29:21 UTC

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Haha. Touché. Great way of putting it.

2025-09-02 14:44:09 UTC

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Never saw it this way but it does track. Interesting viewpoint.

2025-09-02 14:40:29 UTC

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Agree to some extent. Adam's comments/perspective might be the push I needed to switch to Coldcard from the Jade as my goto.

2025-09-01 01:58:24 UTC

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@nprofile…9w6m had an episode a few months ago where he and Saylor discussed equity being the future of investment in a bitcoin-based economy instead of the credit-based system we have now. Saylor went bananas basically but to me it makes perfect sense. We now have an asset that can measure the equity value gained by an investment, why would I go into debt when I now have the same mechanism of value aggregation available in an equity-based asset?

2025-08-29 13:25:13 UTC

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Correction. Everyone is buying paper bitcoin.

2025-08-23 20:59:07 UTC

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Yes, because all of a sudden he is an expert on it.

2025-08-23 20:57:21 UTC

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I see a lot of people forgetting this.
#nevent1q…z5p4

2025-08-12 18:40:44 UTC

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I feel like you guys lost your way and all you do is talk about NGU. No real substance like before, no ethos of the bitcoin core. Just noise. Can you all revert back to the content I started to follow you for?

2025-08-12 12:09:20 UTC

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Not of they keep papering over it.

2025-07-22 19:47:32 UTC

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Yeah, but people are missing that stable coins are just a different take on CBDCs.

2025-07-20 20:05:06 UTC

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White Tailed Deer. Would love to work my way up to Elk. What about you?

2025-07-20 18:33:08 UTC

On my journey to self-sufficiency, I am learning how to hunt. Last Winter was my first experience hunting, in general for the first time ever, on private land with a mentor. But I don't want to rely on people to be able to practice and learn or outright be able to hunt at all. I decided to try and hunt on public land this upcoming season. Yesterday was my first scouting trial run and I happen to encounter a very busy corridor in the woods used by deer, hogs and bears.
I am scouting in summer and planning on hunting in fall/winter, so the environment will be different and so will be the location and behavior of my prey. But I thoroughly enjoyed the thrill of being able to apply everything I have been learning through the internet in relation to tracking. This trip de-mystified the whole tracking thing. Also, being alone in the woods, off pre-made trials, was extremely refreshing and exciting. Even though I am physically exhausted, I find myself emotionally recharged (yes, I am an introvert at my core).
Planning on another scouting trip in 3-4 weeks or so.
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2025-06-25 01:11:18 UTC

I just finished, luke right now, Black Myth: Wukong with the true ending.
Dang, this game was hard but awesome! It's definitely a love-hate relationship but leaning more towards love for sure. Hence why I feel I need to shout it to the world, that I in fact just finished an awesome and difficult game.
#gamestr #gaming #grownostr
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2025-06-22 14:10:05 UTC

I hate how games are increasingly ignoring a game console's inherent form factor. Every game wants to be in every platform. It doesn't work and I hate the fiat mind set.
Xbox basically surrendered in the console wars with their cope of "everything is an Xbox" campaign. Switch 2 launched and there are no particular unique flagship games. 80% of the games are from Switch 1.
You can play almost every game in PC, Switch and Play Station. Why? This may seem like a "good thing for consumers" but it's really a deterioration of design quality.
For example, what inherently made Xbox and PS different for consumers? Their form factor was the same with some minor differences in controller ergonomics and they had to relay on marketing campaigns, color schemes and exclusive deals on games to differentiate themselves from each other . You want to play X game? Need to buy an Xbox. Want to play Y game? Need to buy a PS.
Nintendo had such a different form factor that games played in Nintendo for their majority could not be played in other platforms, setting it completely apart in the console wars. But that has changed and Nintendo has succumb to the fiat mindset.
Nintendo has forgone quality and careful stewardship that generated the "nintendo feel" for an expanding circle of profit. When a game comes out in PC, Nintendo, and PS, I feel that something is wrong. Feels like there are no meaningful differences in game consoles anymore. Which means the meaningful choices from gamers are going down. Which means that the human experience of these designs, consoles and games has been turned flat.
All of this for an initial expanding circle of profit that is deteriorating as it is expanding.
On the bright side there are new consoles coming out with a focus on form factor like the Playdate and the Nex. So there is hope. I hope these new companies adopt a #bitcoin standard to better equipped themselves to generate better designs for their consoles and games and help bring meaningful differences to game experiences and game consoles.
#bitcoin #gaming #plebchain #grownostr

2025-06-20 21:54:41 UTC

"Technocracy" and "Technocrats"
These are words that should be in everybody's vocabulary. These words help encapsulate and describe the concepts and dynamics that describe the greater moving forces of our governments. The ideas that motivate the individuals in the shadows, the puppet masters. The one cohesive perspective to make sense of all the perceivably disjointed movements of our governments and nations yet achieving the same unifying goal - population dominance, the curtailing of freedoms, the incremental management of people like cattle instead of free agents.
The cohesive tissue of all political parties are the technocrats. These people have no political ideals aside from dominance, no higher moral than control, and no satisfaction greater that does not come from gaining power over other humans. Do not fall for their tactics of "red" vs "blue", or whatever your nation's dual color flavor is. They are chameleons willing to adjust their plans and tactics according to the "winning" political movement of the time. Democrats in power? Let us push for mass immigration and corrode the cultural fabric of a nation. Republicans in power? Let us push for wars overseas to destabilize nations and create greater global chaos for our advantage.
Once you stop seeing and believing the story being played in front of you through the shadow puppet show, you start seeing the puppet masters behind them and are able to question and better judge their actions.
#plebchain #freedom #grownostr

2025-06-19 17:33:43 UTC

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If the deadline keeps being moved, is it really a deadline? If our debt ceilings keeps being raised, is there really a debt limit?

2025-06-19 15:59:19 UTC

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Great wake up call! I myself am transitioning to the Linux system and leaving behind the monopolistic Windows/Apple world. Using an old 2012 Macbook, upgrading its hardware and running Linux. I definitely suffer from hoarding and perfectionism. Not a deep tech person but seeing as how the surveillance state requires our ignorance of information technology, I have made it a point to start learning about it. I can follow guides and setup things with direction but I do yearn for deeper understanding on the subjects that matter to me. I run my own btc node and use it, running linux now and currently on the path of understanding the internet and how to securely interface with it. Looking forward for more of your content.

2025-06-19 01:14:25 UTC

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This is the way. Decentralized tool engineering and design.
#nevent1q…tdvd

2025-06-19 01:12:49 UTC

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Sharing my thought as a "customer". I am currently going through this digital rabbit hole of privacy and genuinely excited when I saw this post. But my enthusiasm was halted when I saw the price point on the website. If this would have been $10 or $5 I would have bought it, gave it a quick read and stashed it for when I am at the level to execute the content. But at current price point its a bit high for me to buy and stash when considering against other priorities. I also imagine the goal of your efforts is the spreading of this valuable knowledge while acquiring some value for your work (which is very appreciated). I think you will find the equilibrium of highest money gain crossing highest people buying it at a lower price point. Also, would it be possible to have access to the first chapter as a preview? Just some unsolicited commentary but felt appropriate to share. Thanks for developing and working to share all this valuable and important information!

2025-06-10 20:22:26 UTC

If innovation happens by cross-pollination of fields, meaning simultaneous active navigation of different fields overlapping, then by definition specialization does not generate innovation, it only produces efficiency.
Innovation is what keeps civilization dynamic and moving forward - without it civilization stagnates and eventually digresses and cannibalizes itself.
It is hard to maintain control over a dynamic population. A dynamic civilization by definition is a decentralized civilization.
But a specialized population, where individuals are highly specialized in one field but cannot adequately navigate and operate in another field become highly efficient but easier to manipulate and control as they have no real knowledge of other dimensions of knowledge being used to manipulate them.
All of this under the guise and pretense of these highly specialized individuals' competency and high intelligence to avoid being capture by their governing bodies.
#grownostr #plebchain #bitcoin

2025-06-09 16:22:32 UTC

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When is this out and where to buy? Will you provide a sample of a few pages? Looking forward to it.

2025-06-07 11:14:24 UTC

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I would say it is its only stronghold. The one from which all its other evils can survive on. You take that away and the beast starts to die of hunger.

2025-06-07 03:18:20 UTC

Remember why you #bitcoin. It is not in pursuit of endless accumulation of money - that is greed.
You are in pursuit of freedom through the best money - #bitcoin.
Make sure you take time to enjoy the world as you are fighting for it.
#plebchain #beach #freedom
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2025-06-07 03:14:21 UTC

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I think it would serve mote good than bad. As much of a fraction as it could be if the current hashrate that could change with the adoption of more active nodes as bitcoin keeps growing in its intellectual market cap. And it can serve as a gateway drug to those next steps as the bitaxes - it would serve as an on ramp to make the transition smoother. I just don't see why not.

2025-06-06 15:00:16 UTC

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Yes, less effective but that is a given. Still, the option should be there for whoever wants to participate. 🤷‍♂️

2025-06-04 20:16:44 UTC

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The state only knows how to lie and steal. It cannot produce anything and only manages its resources to destruction.
Adoption AND Self-custody are the revolution.
#bitcoin
#nevent1q…kfm5

2025-06-04 14:59:49 UTC

#asknostr #plebchain #privacy
For all those privacy-minded, surveillance-hating plebs... is there any solution to protecting your property from google earth satellites?
I am not talking about google maps where you can request (key word here) to blur out your house image so other people don't see it, yet google still keeps it. I am talking about the idea of the notion that they have of the right to just surveil and document every corner of the earth without anyone's consent every second.
I am looking for info on this but barely find mentions of the concept. Is there any way to jam satellite signals to block a geographical area or are we down to camouflage techniques?
I truly don't understand how this is not a bigger issue in the privacy-surveillance discussion. Is it because it is a loss cause? Any info on this either tactics to fight it or documents/videos to understand it is appreciated.

2025-06-02 23:27:19 UTC

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We need to actively and aggressively protect our right to privacy. Once the data has been collected of you, it is game over.
We need to question if anyone has the right to collect, store, and use data that reflects a person.
#nevent1q…l0h9

2025-05-31 21:59:17 UTC

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I didn't hear @nprofile…h06x reading but I read the book a few weeks ago. I have also been thinking how to best position myself and family for this event. We don't have debt aside from our mortgage and a car. I don't have stocks. Only bitcoin. I do have a 401k accumulated before discovering and going all into bitcoin. I am currently struggling with how to handle that 401k. Should I cash it and buy bitcoin? Cash it and make the jump to buy the homesteading property we want? Leave it for future spending for emergency so I don't have to touch bitcoin as a first instance? All hard questions that entail risks and rewards.

2025-05-31 17:35:10 UTC

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Great analogy.
"Don't trust, verify."
"Not your keys, not your coins."
These are all powerful memes being lost in real time and "bitcoiners" are either showing their true colors or loosing their way because "number go up" or they feel ecstatic that fiat world is "on their side now". Let us not loose sight of the goal: a monetary revolution, not a fusion with the devil.
#nevent1q…pxlr

2025-05-31 17:30:28 UTC

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Great way of saying it. I express a similar sentiment last night.
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2025-05-31 05:02:33 UTC

With all the fiat bros and fiat talks and fiat pitches and fiat thinking exhibited and celebrated in "Bitcoin" 2025, it is clear that traditional finances will try and treat bitcoin like they do the dollar with a lot of help from all the shipcoins and scammers in this space.
Meaning they are going to distort and lie about how much bitcoin they actually have and they will lend and paper-bitcoin their way into a lot of initial fiat gains.
But in their ignorance and hubris, as they are padding their own backs, congratulating themselves on all the financial engineering they have conjured around bitcoin, just when they think they have slither their way out of financial reality through re-hypothecation, the bubble will burst.
They will try every little dirty trick they have deployed before in the past to avoid accountability when the bank runs come knocking and debt calls come rolling. But this time they will find themselves in front of a static, unbreakable, constant link to truth. They will try to manipulate bitcoin into being as elastic as all fiat currency to find they get shocked by proof-of- work and stomped by decentralization. The reality of sound money will come thundering for them as all the monetary sins get exposed.
The false economy that has been built on debt and lies will collapse and bitcoin, seen as the asset that was captured and enslaved to the fiat overlords, will be the one to whip all backs of those who profit from inflation and money printing. But those who stand their ground firmly, never wavering, always believing and patiently stacking, will bear the fruits of their labor. Their vision will be rewarded and responsibility will be awarded.
Bitcoin is truth. Truth is easy to uphold and live with. It is natural. Lies on the other hand beget more lies. They require a constant fight against the natural state of reality. They are poison. Truth always wins over lies. Be prepared to endure until truth wins. Be prepared to fight for the truth and help it shine sooner and brighter. Fight against those who construct and gain from the lies. Lies always collapse while truth always withstands.
All fiat currencies end up hyper-inflating, and the dollar is in an even more precarious position being the reserve currency of the world, backed by demand on its debt. Even if bitcoin becomes what backs the dollar, which will cause, in my opinion, a faster and more aggressive hyperinflation of the dollar - since now we will have a clear asset to contrast the amount of dollars circulating and therefor its non-worth will become evident. This will trigger mass demand for bitcoin and a rejection of fiat - accelerating a bitcoin standard. But with this shift comes the collapse of all the debt and consequently all that is built on that debt - which will be catastrophic for society but a process unavoidable to fix our trajectory as a human civilization. Like mending a bone that has broken and was left to heal broken. To fix it, that bone needs to be broken once more to properly align it and reinstate it to its natural state. This will be the price to pay to abandon the empire built on lies. This will cause a lot of pain and destruction but we will need to endure it and do what is needed. We will need to watch it all burn to be able to rebuild from the ashes...
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Wanted to express here a few thoughts of my own. I don't know. Wondering if anyone thinks like me or differs on something/everything? I know it sounds angry and dark, and it may be, but I also think it is the reality of the current situation and a reality of the shift to the bitcoin standard that we all want here but that might be a bit lost on us.
#asknostr #plebchain #bitcoin

2025-05-31 03:38:08 UTC

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The good kind of FUD. The healthy FUD.

2025-05-30 01:51:33 UTC

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On discussing the #NodeWars of #bitcoin and why anyone who thinks this is a none-issue should reconsider and run #Knots.
#nevent1q…tmey

2025-05-30 01:28:58 UTC

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Ha! I like how "sats on ice" sounds.

2025-05-29 22:19:40 UTC

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2025-05-29 20:50:34 UTC

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Convinience is how you loose the freedoms gained. This cannot be more true for #bitcoin.
I understand the argument to make it easier to facilitate mass adoption. But if we are willing to sacrifice everything that makes #bitcoin the better alternative in service of mass adoption - there is no point in mass adoption, we end up in the same manipulated system.
Let us be careful to not try to gain the world but loose out souls in the process.
#plebchain
#nevent1q…68hf

2025-05-29 17:14:14 UTC

#NodeWars #Knots keeps going up to protect #bitcoin from spam crap. We are now almost 11% of the network!
Everyone running #Knots should really set their spam filtering to 0 so the backlash is felt tremendously across the chasm and we have other sectors being affected - like sidechains and what not. This way, next time spammers want to try something, we have more than just the maximalists as a pressure point - we also have everyone else affected by the maximalists as a pressure point against spammers because of the extent maximalists are willing to go to protect #bitcoin. Running a sidechain should be viewed as a privilege not as the reason for #bitcoin.
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2025-05-29 16:16:15 UTC

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I would like to know who orange-pilled him and his perspective on it.

2025-05-29 14:57:43 UTC

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I would like to follow this up with... they cannot sell this as "convenience" anymore. Where their pitch was to buy the digital version so you didn't have to manage all that physical media and always have your collection readily accesible wherever you were.
I am already buying the cartridge! We cannot keep selling our freedoms and ownership for convenience.
I hope they revert this decision.
#gaming #plebchain #asknostr
https://primal.net/e/
#nevent1q…6qwp

2025-05-29 14:02:49 UTC

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Yes, we need to be careful not to sacrifice the bitcoin ethos - that which brought bitcoin to us - under the excitement of finely being vindicated, accepted and celebrated by the "enemy". Fintech is only in it for the short gain, not the revolution. Yes, its good more people are exposed to bitcoin through this wave of adoption but it is all for nothing if they change us rather than us changing them.

2025-05-29 13:35:47 UTC

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But that still leaves the monetary value of the currency/bitcoin as the reason for dust txs. Transaction fees are based on the innate currency of the blockchain, bitcoin/sats. On the best day we have 1s/vB. That one sat could increase to $0.01, $1, $10, etc., at that point we still have dust UTXOs for economical reasons rather than technical ones, right? There is no way to move a 1 sat UTXO as the fee is more than the value of the UTXO found alone in a single address. I wander if this can be fixed by breaking down bitcoin's unit further than the 9 decimal points. Something like 1 sat = 100,000 naks (for nakamoto), for example. At that point we have given the blockchain wiggle room to take fees at lower value than the sat. Or maybe we can somehow merge UTXOs from various wallets or pay fees from another wallet that is not the UTXO holder? What do you think about this?

2025-05-29 13:26:14 UTC

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This is similarly how I approach it too. I think it's de facto strategy now. Accumulate on the exchange a reasonable amount of bitcoin and then send it to cold storage as a single but bigger UTXO.

2025-05-29 13:07:49 UTC

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Then why have them now in the first place? What is their intended purpose?

2025-05-29 12:51:02 UTC

How does the problem of dust transactions in the blockchain get fixed?
Isn't this a major problem as #bitcoin keeps going up in value? 3000 sats right now is not much and even represents fractions of a penny but in the future it could be worth $300 or even, with sat-dollar parity, $3000 or more. Wouldn't the blockchain, by bitcoin becoming more and more valuable, start to natively price out the majority of the population? Who will pay $300 to move savings of $1000?
Anyone has any ideas or resources to point to that discuss this issue? #plebchain #asknostr

2025-05-29 12:36:56 UTC

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2025-05-29 12:35:06 UTC

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One could say Elon had noble intentions but a misguided strategy.
The only way to win against the behemoth of government and its overreach is to starve it. To slowly abandon it. The only way to do that is with a #bitcoin standard - a full circular economy, save in bitcoin, standard. Not the fiat crap that is coming from fiat-bitcoiners.
Save. Buy. Think in bitcoin. #plebchain
#nevent1q…vpkk

2025-05-29 12:29:39 UTC

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This is how we end up "owning nothing". Even physical media is being neutered. This is crazy. They are selling the illusion of ownership.
#nevent1q…9e3s

2025-05-29 01:16:54 UTC

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Working towards it!

2025-05-28 23:12:44 UTC

I would like to expand the idea of running a #bitcoin NODE as the conceptual building block if a framework for a decentralized civilization.
You have your house that can produce #off-grid water, energy, food, shelter and manages waste (#earthship) - think of it as your EARTHNODE. This earthnode provides its inhabitants with sovereignty and the basics components for their survival.
Then you have a #bitcoin node for decentralized and sovereign financial freedom and topped of with #nostr for uncensorable communication and I think we have the recipe we need to solidify this revolution and send human civilization forward. I think this is how we have a chance of a #solarpunk future instead of the fiat dystopian nightmare that is unfolding right now.
What do you all think? #asknostr #plebchain

2025-05-28 00:42:13 UTC

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Its not so much about for buying or transactional functions but rather perception and individual valuation. It's the same object but its value is perceived differently based on how it's treated. It can also be observed in relationships for example. Depending on how a husband treats the wife, the wife herself feels more valuable and others see her as having more value based on how she is being taken care of.
I don't know if this helps to explain myself better?

2025-05-28 00:10:02 UTC

Anybody knows the word/s for the following concept - in any language.
Concept:
When the perceived value of something is affected, either positively or negatively, by its context and/or how it is stored. Specifically, it's place of rest or storage.
For example, an ancient, rare book stored in two different environments. One version is on an Ikea shelf on the corner of a dingy, smelly room, closed, on its side and dusty. The second version, that same book is on a glass casing, open for display, on a thick wooden polished table as the center piece of the room. The item in question is the same but how it is stored and the environment it finds itself in modify the perceived value of that object.
Any ideas?
#asknostr #artstr #psychology

2025-05-27 23:13:35 UTC

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Ah, got it. Yes, who doesn't want to. But the difference-makers focus on the revolution that will raise all boats and propel human civilization forward vs the fiat mindset of just capturing and subjugating whatever is needed to be the richest of them all.

2025-05-27 22:23:35 UTC

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Isn't everyone what?

2025-05-27 20:48:35 UTC

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2025-05-27 19:22:56 UTC

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2025-05-27 16:17:31 UTC

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Saylor has done a lot to push and validate bitcoin to the mainstream but people need to treat him as what he is. His intentions are not to facilitate the revolution we are seeking but just capitalize in bitcoin's inevitable monetary superiority.
He is not seeking to revolutionize the system that made him rich - it works for him! And he has publicly talked down about the cypherpunk ethos that birthed bitcoin. He is looking to at bitcoin as a captured asset. We need to thank him, keep his involvement in the space - because hyperbitconization does not happen without the traditional financial system being included - but notch him down a few levels. We should be giving this treatment to people who are looking to maintain and develop bitcoin as freedom money.
Anybody else has a different perspective? #bitcoin #asknostr #plebchain
#nevent1q…gmwe

2025-05-27 16:15:23 UTC

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Saylor has done a lot to push and validate bitcoin to the mainstream but people need to treat him as what he is. His intentions are not to facilitate the revolution we are seeking but just capitalize in bitcoin's inevitable monetary superiority. He is not seeking to revolutionize the system that made him rich - it works for him. He is looking to at bitcoin as a captured asset. We need to thank him, keep his involvement in the space - because hyperbitconization does not happen without the traditional financial system being included - but notch him down a few levels. We should be giving this treatment to people who are looking to maintain and develop bitcoin as freedom money.

2025-05-27 16:15:06 UTC

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Saylor has done a lot to push and validate bitcoin to the mainstream but people need to treat him as what he is. His intentions are not to facilitate the revolution we are seeking but just capitalize in bitcoin's inevitable monetary superiority. He is not seeking to revolutionize the system that made him rich - it works for him. He is looking to at bitcoin as a captured asset. We need to thank him, keep his involvement in the space - because hyperbitconization does not happen without the traditional financial system being included - but notch him down a few levels. We should be giving this treatment to people who are looking to maintain and develop bitcoin as freedom money.

2025-05-25 15:47:41 UTC

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Chemtrails. This is not a conspiracy theory anymore. In US some states are trying to actively ban them. We are being treated like cattle more than we realize.

2025-05-25 15:45:41 UTC

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Nicely put.
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2025-05-25 01:43:41 UTC

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Fair. The threat of this issue can be perceived at different degrees of intensity per individual but the response to it is still a binary. You are either acting against it - meaning you are actively protecting it - or you are facilitating it - even by inaction.
There are two major problems here. Even though UTXO bloat is not a direct consequence of the usage of OP_RETURN, it is an indirect one and it’s not the only issue stemming from it.
First, the UTXO bloat is only an issue because of other spam waves - yes, waves that have been priced out but spam waves nonetheless that bitcoin is becoming more accommodating of - which only increases there reoccurrence in whatever form they may come. The social layer of bitcoin should be the first defense for these attacks. Why let adversarial agents close to your best weapon in this war? Why let them fiddle and test a few bolts? Yes, we might have a tank with a thousand tight bolts - so who cares if only one gets damaged by these non-monetary mercenaries - we still have 999 bolts that are still strong and ready when they are needed, right? Yes, but we are also one bolt weaker because of poor stewardship and lack of vigilance and vision. It’s one thing to get damaged during a legit attack, another is to get weaker by inaction.
These waves have also been funded by short term projects and interest trying to test out the waters of bitcoin. But this vector of attack can be exploited by bigger agents with more sinister motives and larger chests of wars. Why leave an opening that is fairly easy to defend? Why give intel to potential weak points to enemies? Why not actively fix the weak link in the chain?
The second point - even if this is considered just inconsequential graffiti, it is raising the threshold to be able to run a node with accesible hardware - which is an attack vector to decentralization, one of the most important aspect of bitcoin. Spam cannot fill a block more than its intended MB size, but it artificially adds data to the blockchain that now needs to be stored in nodes - forever. Nodes are volunteer - they incur in running nodes without monetary payback or incentives - why make it harder for them?
Bitcoin is man-made, it is a system that needs to be protected - it is not a greater-than-humans, force-of-nature like gravity. We need to give it maintenance and protect its design for it to work as the system was designed to work to be able to achieve its monetary end.
Even though I disagree with you here - I don’t want to appear adversarial towards you. Thanks for all your hard work on the financial side you do for bitcoin. Really appreciate it. Thank you.

2025-05-24 22:57:13 UTC

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Depends on the particular database. The dollar ledger? Dollars. Bitcoin ledger? Bitcoin. And so on. That is the point she is making. The best ledger to operate in is Bitcoin and nothing else.

2025-05-24 19:51:01 UTC

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I do think she made a very good case for money as a ledger - which is a monetary database and an accurate way of understanding what money is. I don't know exactly her preference on monetary school of thought. She definitely believes in hard money according to her book. I do appreciate her macro understanding and her voice in bitcoin. But bitcoin/money is usually found at intersections and some people arrive at this intersection being experts of one of those roads and don't really understand the other roads they are now encountering at this intersection. And this is a journey everybody is at. At least in my opinion.

2025-05-24 17:45:44 UTC

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I respect @LynAlden greatly for all her financial knowledge and everything she is doing to move #bitcoin forward but I do think she is wrong here. We need to actively and unconditionally guard the #bitcoin garden at all costs.
Everything that is created by humans needs maintenance and safeguarding to keep it developing as intended. Bitcoin is money, which is an unavoidable human emergent technology but it is not gravity, it is not a layer 1 natural phenomenon where humans are bound to it instead of the other way around. Let's keep fighting the trolls out of our created garden. The faster the blockchain data size grows, the faster potential node runners are eliminated. Nodes are the decentralization force of bitcoin. Decentralization is what makes bitcoin. Freedom requires vigilance. Do not fall complacent and be ready to fight to protect that which matters. And this issue matters for bitcoin decentralization.

2025-05-24 17:43:48 UTC

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I respect @nprofile…g28z greatly for all her financial knowledge and everything she is doing to move #bitcoin forward but I do think she is wrong here. We need to actively and unconditionally guard the #bitcoin garden at all costs.
Everything that is created by humans needs maintenance and safeguarding to keep it developing as intended. Bitcoin is money, which is an unavoidable human emergent technology but it is not gravity, it is not a layer 1 natural phenomenon where humans are bound to it instead of the other way around. Let's keep fighting the trolls out of our created garden. The faster the blockchain data size grows, the faster potential node runners are eliminated. Nodes are the decentralization force of bitcoin. Decentralization is what makes bitcoin. Freedom requires vigilance. Do not fall complacent and be ready to fight to protect that which matters. And this issue matters for bitcoin decentralization.
What do you all think?
#plebchain #asknostr
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2025-05-24 04:35:49 UTC

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I don't know how to feel about this. Currently leaning to unfavorable. Aren't we supposed to be trying to create a circular economy? This gets in the way of that goal. Doesn't it?... How do you all feel about it?
#bitcoin #asknostr #plebchain
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2025-05-24 04:28:20 UTC

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I have been on Nostr for just a few weeks and content discovery is definitely a challenge but that could be a function of active users being limited at the moment. I definitely do not want what I am running from - predatory algorithms. But I do find myself wanting to craft my own algo for discovery but then have my default be chronological.

2025-05-24 03:57:19 UTC

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In what sense do you think it will mirror the centralized platforms taking into account the fundamental differences?

2025-05-23 16:04:15 UTC

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Just a few weeks new to Nostr and I am loving it. It is definitely different. Something special, unique, hard to pinpoint even though I can identify components (zaps, protocol, etc.) of it. It feels like the future for sure. But I do wonder if Nostr is this awesome space because of the combination of new tech and small amount of users. I wonder how these two variables will change in the future by quantity and speed and how that in turn will change how Nostr feels and functions. I wonder if it will be able to keep its current core zeitgeist in spite of mass adoption.

2025-05-23 15:39:19 UTC

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Great video!

2025-05-23 15:37:08 UTC

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Great breakdown of the differences in configuration between Knots and Core. Knots gives you waaaay more power over your settings. Run Knots. #Bitcoin #plebchain #NodeWars
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2025-05-23 13:26:43 UTC

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This seems like a great idea. Can it be used in Primal or just in the two clients mentioned on the website?

2025-05-22 20:35:05 UTC

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Could you elaborate how specifically? I understand what you mean but don't see how this principle fails in this context as I think you are alluding to (?).

2025-05-22 20:33:13 UTC

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Agree that L2s like lightning network are needed to make bitcoin faster and convenient for everyday use. But I would argue that even if we didn't have L2s bitcoin would still be optimal money in relation to everything else. It may be slower but still operable for wealth management or big purchases while not needing a third-party custodian which wins over gold and it holds its value over time which beats fiat. But, yes for everyday micro/small purchases we do need L2s that focus on optimizing for speed and security of transactions while L1 optimizes for decentralization and security.

2025-05-22 18:25:22 UTC

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I don't think I have ever encountered this emotion becore...I find this video taps into my unsettling cortex as well as my hunger lizard brain. In other words I find this scary and tasty at the same time.

2025-05-22 17:54:35 UTC

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This is very basic in the design world, the FLEXIBILITY vs SPECIFICITY principle. The more flexible something is, the less specific it can be by definition and vice versa. We want Bitcoin to be the OPTIMAL money, therefor it can't try to do anything else as all of its design's encountered trade-offs need to favor the aspect of money for it to be THE best money.
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2025-05-22 17:54:21 UTC

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2025-05-22 14:33:30 UTC

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Spam. Run Knots.

2025-05-22 00:19:50 UTC

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Yes, you are right. 😂

2025-05-21 23:44:52 UTC

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I deleted FB like 6 months ago. I was already not using it for 3-4 years but still having it there on the shelf bothered me. Twitter is the last one standing for me and after discovering Nostr, I am seriously considering it abandoning it too. For personal and content creation.

2025-05-21 23:33:47 UTC

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Institutional adoption.

2025-05-21 22:22:45 UTC

"The future is already here, it's just not equally distributed yet."
- William Gibson
If you are reading this, congratulations! Because you are already using the technology of the future. The future is #Bitcoin and #Nostr. Decentralized, efficient, uncensorable, innovative technology of tomorrow.
Use your position to capitalize and affect the positive change we so desperately need in this world.

2025-05-21 18:53:10 UTC

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Great post! I would say relays are the cornerstone of nostr yet are the hardest, from a user's perspective, to really sidt through. You choose a relay to explore it without really knowing what it is about.

2025-05-21 17:08:06 UTC

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That is interesting. Never thought about client focus experiences based on type of content before. But it makes sense. The base layer is nostr, from where the content is taken from but then the client itself can have unique features that enhance how you consume and share that particular type of content. But how? Instagram-like client with a lot of powerful in-app photo editing capabilities? Long form content from nostr which the app lets you save, organize, tag, highlight, notate, share specific quotes, etc? ...seems like an interesting idea exploiting the uniqueness of nostr with free market dynamics.

2025-05-21 17:03:12 UTC

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This is the way.
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2025-05-21 17:02:51 UTC

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This is the way!

2025-05-21 15:27:14 UTC

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I would concur with you. Feels very early and exciting. I hope it doesn't end up ruining itself. I think the content will come with the growth of the network but the growth of the network depends on the available content. So its a bit of a chicken and egg problem. I guess it will take content creators, most likely emerging ones, to value zaps and quality engagement over fiat and marketing schemes.

2025-05-21 14:51:54 UTC

In other social medias you PERFORM, here in Nostr you PARTICIPATE.
Saw a post here saying something along these lines and it really stroke a chord for me. That is the difference here and what social media should be - not the endless pursuit of mindslaving. (And of course zaps!)
I am curious to see what makes Nostr different/better from the rest of social media for you all? Also, what is it lacking or does wrong - and how to fix?
#asknostr #plebchain

2025-05-21 14:45:22 UTC

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That is what money is for. Congrats, man!

2025-05-20 20:12:24 UTC

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I build a few things. What is this in relation to nostr? Is it a group chat/page? Do I sign up with my nostr pubkey?