Cykros

Nice, you got him on Nostr!
I can't go much beyond 2x speed so Idk that I have space for another podcast but it was good hearing him on yours. Seems like a great resource.

2026-05-22 18:25:53 UTC

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Laszlo mined a stupid amount of coins in a very short time frame, having started mining before he'd released his code.
What Bitcoin is designed to handle and what it could handle in its infancy are two very different things -- same reason Satoshi was concerned about Wikileaks.
Mike Tyson was a lot easier to knock out as a 1 year old.

2026-05-22 17:43:25 UTC

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I'm no defender of 110 and I get why not everyone's so big on mempool filters depending on how you approach your expectations of them, but curious as to why you'd view OCEAN as an attack.
Seems like most mining pools are an attack through centralized template creation and that OCEAN addresses this issue through DATUM. Stratum v2 may be better but doesn't really seem quite there yet.
Anyway, yea, good faith reasons, how is OCEAN an attack?

2026-05-22 17:32:32 UTC

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Idk man, Satoshi cared, and was displeased...

2026-05-22 17:20:58 UTC

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I'm not sure how deep I've seen a write up go. I'd expect a write up on Frost to be more readily available, and then the info on frostr.org to understand where it's different, and where there are things that may not have quite been mapped over, such as tools for distributed key generation.
Such as this one: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/852.pdf
It's basically an application of Shamir's secret sharing which conceivably can be used both on the nsec and an xpriv.
I've been doing more chatting with AI about it and other nested key variants to understand differences. Some of those actually do seem better for just Bitcoin but Frost seems to hit the sweet spot of working well for both Nostr and Bitcoin.
That all said, I'm no cryptographer, just really curious about what can be done, with a penchant for bringing up ideas like this hoping someone who does know what they're doing might run with them.

2026-05-22 12:27:40 UTC

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Found a spot my wife goes to regularly that has a Square terminal, so I figured it's a good time to give them the talk.

2026-05-21 21:17:22 UTC

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Well this is weird...this node was me quoting Max Hillebrand's long form article for Praxaeology of Privacy. Anyone else see that here? Or did it get clipped off and just look out of context?

2026-05-21 18:49:28 UTC

Didn't realize the whole book was apparently hear on Nostr. Seems very pertinent particularly amid our current discussions of the #privacy implications of on chain zaps. Give it a read -- and some sats!

2026-05-21 18:30:36 UTC

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For a first offense maybe if I'm feeling lenient.
Otherwise, like this: https://media2.giphy.com/media/O3Towk20Ty704/200w.webp

2026-05-21 17:47:41 UTC

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I like that "the last time I was here" white lie.
Though I imagine it may backfire when you happen to realize you're actually standing in front of the business owner...

2026-05-21 17:27:46 UTC

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This works if you're getting Papa John's anyway, which is pizza in the way that Donald Trump is a fiscal conservative.
Doing this to real pizza, though, is foodcrime.

2026-05-21 12:56:29 UTC

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Some Jews have long been the footsoldiers of deeper power structures for centuries, being particularly easy to enlist given their status in society particularly during medieval and renaissance times in Europe. Christians couldn't lend at interest, so get the Jews to do it! Meanwhile, Zionism itself was something that actually had relatively little Jewish buy in when it started getting formulated in the mid to late 19th century by largely British aristocrats. And let's not forget that the Crusades themselves were an effort to take Western control over Palestine, led not by Jews (many of whom already lived there in relative peace under Saracen control) but of course, by the Christian armies.
Pointing the finger at the Jews for everything is essentially akin to pointing the finger at middle management when you take issue with what a corporation has done. Is there some responsibility among many? Sure...but they're not "behind it all."
When it comes to banking in Europe anyway, the Templars went way further back, even before what most would call the start of banking in Venice (centuries before the Medicis) though of course they did have their role to play in the rise of that Venetian system (from which the Warburg family arose, among others).
The Warburgs being Jewish themselves of course points to just how intertwined this all is, but the point being, Jewishness is not what is behind the power structure; it is all but an accidental characteristic of some involved.
Blaming the Jews is just laziness, and is both unjust to many uninvolved Jews as well as unhelpful in actually pointing to the real power structures in the world today (and historically).
To be fair I'm not quite sold on the Masons as a whole being particularly problematic either, but it would be blind to say there are not currents of power flowing through their organization who happen to value secrecy, and who demonstrably have not always had the best interests of the governed in mind (whatever this actually means at the end of the day).

2026-05-21 12:39:02 UTC

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GM Kip. Up way too early because my kid can't be bothered to set an alarm clock and I had to drive him in. Weeks before graduation and we're still playing this stupid game.
It'll be weird when he's at college and I can start eating the way I want to and have far less interrupted sleep (though, 3 dogs and a wife still means that sleep is something I'll have to be vigilant about...).
Think your gif may have inspired me to listen to Lateralus again...
https://media4.giphy.com/media/bASySzJH6bsxG/giphy.gif?cid=4ea4f8d5ul5dyvew95bjbteedvta11sh75ggx5ltyuvgoj3a&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

2026-05-21 02:45:37 UTC

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That poor creature. Those eyes just scream WHYYYYY??

2026-05-20 23:56:02 UTC

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Curious, not sure how accurate this is. Though most, as in, over 50%, yea, probably.
I definitely spend at Square from the same wallets I zap with, and replenish through things like ZBD and Satsman (and you know, purchases).

2026-05-20 21:05:38 UTC

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You can't eat too many potatoes, you can just do it too quickly.

2026-05-20 21:01:46 UTC

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Except it's not new, we just knew better than to do it.
#nevent1q…dys9

2026-05-20 20:58:36 UTC

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Idk, I'd rather listen to the XMR crowd than the BLV crowd.
At least their coin is one I can expect to last through the end of the year...

2026-05-20 15:11:48 UTC

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The concern with on chain "zaps" is less that the transaction itself is public, and more that the utxo's history and future become public for all to see along with what essentially amounts to kyc at that point in time. Lightning zaps, on the other hand, are public -- however, thanks to onion routing and the lack of a shared public ledger, that is ALL that is public.
This seems to be the krux of the concern. On chain zaps CAN be handled safely, but it adds the requirement that both parties address this with things like coinjoins, swaps, etc, which adds unnecessary costs and of course, room for things to go wrong.

2026-05-20 09:34:30 UTC

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Only if you're going to set a MUCH higher minimum zap to go with it. A 21 sat on chain tx is impossible at even 1 sat/vbyte fees.

2026-05-20 09:24:01 UTC

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This is the way to use an npub if it is to be done.
Though I still don't think it's easier than Lightning.
But it's a cool additional option for when on chain is indeed called for.

2026-05-20 00:12:30 UTC

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The nym gets constraints, for sure. but you can have as many nyms as you want.

2026-05-19 16:12:33 UTC

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You're just obsessed with planting your seeds everywhere, aren't you? 😂
https://media1.giphy.com/media/OH9zWD6tKD9E5QL7Ru/giphy.gif?cid=4ea4f8d5e9nd15phfwhev3z5dbm2eqij5x4frutsyo0wgqbr&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

2026-05-19 14:59:00 UTC

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I didn't get the name of the guy I talked to who was working on this but talked at the expo. And yea, it's VERY interesting. Tadge probably would know more given how closely tied in it is with utreexo.

2026-05-19 14:55:20 UTC

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Found some dated code for throwing it on android here, just in case it's something you decide to roll up sleeves for: https://github.com/Davidson-Souza/floresta-android/tree/master/app

2026-05-19 14:52:10 UTC

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GM
Floresta looks VERY promising on this front, as it's a full node with utreexo intended to run pruned on mobile with a wallet, so that you're not relying on a light node.
Though not sure what you mean someone else's services; I used Blue Wallet on Android just fine pointing it at my own node. But it does sound like you mean you'd prefer not using any outside services at all, even if they are your own.
Floresta is as yet Signet only but should be out soon enough from the look of things.
Project page here: https://github.com/getfloresta/Floresta
Early APK build available from this page: https://eventornado.com/submission/floresta-mobile-app

2026-05-17 22:30:28 UTC

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GM Kat.

2026-05-17 12:59:10 UTC

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I'm thrilled to announce that I've accepted a new position as someone who uses Amethyst as my daily driver. Wisp has been great for showing me some great features Nostr can include, and I wish it the best of luck in its future endeavors.

2026-05-17 11:02:48 UTC

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Never underestimate how much people appreciate caffeine (was gonna write coffee but most people disrespect the shit out of coffee).

2026-05-16 19:33:21 UTC

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I'm not much one for the quantum FUD but this seems a bit of an extreme way to assert that it is much ado about nothing.
Reusing addresses has NEVER been a good idea.
Seems the race lately has been to figure out all of the worst ways to use Bitcoin. Which you're free to do I guess, but it's a weird hobby.

2026-05-16 04:03:22 UTC

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Thank you all so much for not being wisp.

2026-05-16 03:51:16 UTC

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Oh yea, totally different. Hanging out with Art Bell at 3 am with his well selected bumper music and callers from all over just talking crazy ideas was nothing like any podcast. It was real time, on the airwaves -- the signal going through the same space as the aliens and shadow people.
Whole different vibe.
FM never really had the same feel.
Though truth be told single sideband has even more of an out there vibe as the signal distorts as it bounces off the ionosphere...

2026-05-15 18:19:12 UTC

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Or Ditto. At least primal never tried to denominate sats in dollars. HERESY.

2026-05-15 18:11:53 UTC

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I was big on Coast to Coast AM starting early in middle school. Later got into college radio too for shit out of left field, really before this became quite as easy to get with platforms like Youtube.
Still fall back to college radio if I find myself relying on the radio for whatever reason. There's some wild shit that ends up played on those stations.

2026-05-15 00:47:01 UTC

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I remember listening to ABC on a multiband radio. The TV station -- just the audio would come through, but it'd let me consume TV even after it was bedtime.
NGL radio is still magical. But fuck clear channel.

2026-05-14 00:50:59 UTC

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Doesn't look like it'll let me as it's installed from Zapstore...guess I could reinstall from an inferior store temporarily for the cause...but then I'll need some of @npub1zzm…w5wy 's bars to clean up how it'll make me feel...

2026-05-14 00:45:53 UTC

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https://media3.giphy.com/media/6Y49Ck6FxF4nS/200w.webp

2026-05-14 00:19:38 UTC

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Sorry, getting an Apple device is a bridge too far.

2026-05-13 21:01:03 UTC

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Wait didn't @npub1q3s…d26p make Ditto? So confused.

2026-05-10 19:45:53 UTC

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Love Sammy, even if he is often more liberal than I have much stomach for.
Mo Amer tends to be a little less prone to causing me gastrointestinal discomfort politically while still being out there on Palestine.
But nobody tells math jokes like Sammy.

2026-05-10 09:43:45 UTC

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Sounds like the worst sex ever.

2026-05-09 23:24:56 UTC

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You ever have that feeling where you can't tell if you're awake or still dreaming?
https://preview.redd.it/follow-the-white-rabbit-tattoo-v0-xrpyaq50lwqb1.jpg?auto=webp&s=15492fcd8789b96f590042d443f9e506cc9a2f2c

2026-05-09 23:15:15 UTC

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It doesn't stop artbitrary data from being put on chain, it risks freezing utxo's, and worst case scenario, its activation parameters risk SERIOUS reorgs, undermining transaction finality.
In short, it's an attack on Bitcoin.
Founded, no less on "think of the children" rationale (despite, again, NOT preventing anyone from uploading whatever sort of jpg they want. Or tiff, in this case: bitcoin-cli getrawtransaction b8cc570ef453508b6c6a1758bc591c276abdbe2b88881ae487ba4e858bd8d4be | xxd -r -p > luke.tiff
https://knotslies.com/luke-jr-final.jpg

2026-05-09 23:12:01 UTC

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That's what most shitcoiners are. See David Schwartz, former Ripple CTO, who recently very publicly sold his XRP to buy Bitcoin.
"We like Bitcoin, buy our shitcoins" is the Shitcoiner mantra.

2026-05-09 04:10:33 UTC

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Moving coins is definitely not enough. Coinjoins and lightning swaps can go a long way of course. There is always still the concern though that you did visibly buy bitcoin, and if it was a large enough amount to be interesting, well, nobody's gonna believe you just spent it all on zaps and shit at the farmer's market on a Square terminal.
Non-kyc methods of purchase should always be something we are driving forward -- Vexl, Bisq, Hodl Hodl, Robosats, and you know, actually transacting goods and services for bitcoin. Exchanges are a honeypot.

2026-05-08 23:16:05 UTC

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Cypherpunks dating strippers? They ain't heard of honeypots? Damn...that's some dumb shit.

2026-05-07 18:00:06 UTC

@npub14hq…jjzu wen first wave ska Bitcoin jams tho? Might have to get some orange laces and braces for that sorta thing...
https://image.nostr.build/ac473861d62dd185ff9eefbf4e45d6e4dc6e4ab7c007c1fdcbc899fa89d240d9.jpg

2026-05-07 02:09:46 UTC

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A good stick can definitely turn around an otherwise questionable day.

2026-05-07 00:10:42 UTC

Wife gave me the night off in the kitchen with some sweet and soy beef over Trader Joe's knife cut squiggly noodles in a gochujang and cottage cheese sauce. #foodstr
https://image.nostr.build/4f23016940b500f41e780f656db33ae535809dfea9201421fe57f660b454e0e7.jpg

2026-05-04 17:43:49 UTC

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I mean, you could, if you wanna be boring :phpbb2-mrgreen:
But yes, if all you're trying to do is handle your signing using best practices, rather than doing things just because you can, you probably should do one of those things.

2026-05-04 17:09:47 UTC

Has anyone looked into using Temple OS on an airgapped computer as a signing device? It's lack of a networking stack seems to make it an ideal candidate, and what better use for a Temple than handling sacred keys?
Does BDK have bindings for Holy C?

2026-05-01 12:22:45 UTC

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Buying Bitcoin is at least as much about selling fiat. If you buy bitcoin and borrow against it, you undo your impact, putting a bid under the fiat even greater than you did by holding it in the first place.
You help the world by shorting Fiat. Bitcoin gives you a vehicle to do that with which gives you the right incentives for doing so.

2026-05-01 03:03:34 UTC

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Least I can do. Hope you get some down time with your lady.

2026-05-01 01:16:58 UTC

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Congrats on escaping Vegas. Sorry you had to be subjected to that again.
Also, seeing how people jumped on your comments about STRC's interest rate over the past few days, you make me really glad to not be famous.

2026-04-30 19:08:40 UTC

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Some of those are very cool but can be pricey. I do wonder about jumping with a chain though...

2026-04-29 08:36:58 UTC

This is a really useful addition to turbocharged your coinjoins and avoid making patterns in timing.
#naddr1qq…90ts

2026-04-28 11:43:33 UTC

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Jumping rope beats running if you ask me for intensity anyway, with less impact.

2026-04-28 11:14:47 UTC

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GM
https://media3.giphy.com/media/ssaObw3V0jaTUJst4c/200w.webp

2026-04-25 02:31:21 UTC

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That movie was hilarious. Also from that narrow window when we realized Russia wasn't the enemy...

2026-04-24 17:08:38 UTC

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Warned you...
https://image.nostr.build/2eeef8fb0ecf7f858577153e358f5e3fc3c8cf0dcec2fefd598dcfa47f4ba51d.jpg

2026-04-24 12:21:57 UTC

GM.
I'll spare y'all the skin but I definitely look likes red and white tiger today, with the white stripes formed by the shadows of where the sun didn't fall.
Should form a nice base over the next few days anyway.

2026-04-24 03:01:34 UTC

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Yea, went like 9 years without a haircut. Now I shave my head every week or so. Making up for lost time I guess.

2026-04-24 02:41:44 UTC

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I sometimes wanna bring back cykros with hair down to my belt too but then remember I'm 40 and my hairline ain't what it used to be.
Red beard's turned into grey beard too.

2026-04-22 13:11:23 UTC

GM. Getting dragged out for more golf today. Thankfully it's at least a sunny day without much humidity. Had some wildlife out there yesterday.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/cf1723283e25b5de0380ff6ef12b6b0bf59f23f443c4b0fa72d4185301f68691.jpeg
https://blossom.primal.net/a0b467ec16cc429629a6fe79aec79fffc228b5661e7d9a2dfcee6ab421b47223.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/a9e9c1e41875dbb8c5887b0edc1a233f0ae5602d639a9f6b01e11056cf649c0f.jpg

2026-04-18 23:21:08 UTC

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For general linux applications, learning your way around tmux sooner rather than later is pretty key. Emacs is quite handy especially if you find things like org mode useful in your day to day (or others -- there are definitely AI plugins for it, as well as, well, everything else). OpenSSH is pretty key for remote access (as well as tunneling into your services like a Bitcoin node, without needing to expose it to the public Internet). KeePassXC will very nicely replace your password management, and can sync with mobile clients via SSH so you've got access to it everywhere. If you have a music collection you want access to, MPD is an old standby of mine. I use TT-RSS for handling my RSS subscriptions, as it has a nice android client as well (and sets up a web server for viewing anywhere) ensuring RSS client state is synced wherever I use it from.
Definitely a fan of i3 as a window manager, though that may not be your go to if you're new to Linux, as it is almost entirely hotkey driven.

2026-04-18 15:20:51 UTC

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Social lubricant.

2026-04-18 14:05:01 UTC

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"It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a Social Security number, you pay your taxes, and you... help your landlady carry out her garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias "Neo" and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for."
Sometimes it be like that tho.

2026-04-18 03:39:02 UTC

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Valid; she said shotgun, so I went there. It's a shame the AA-12 is so...well, not civilian, lol. Seen a video of a guy literally duel wielding them doing full auto fire with one in each hand given the way they handle absorbing their recoil.
More realistically something in the range of a .38 seems like it'd have all the stopping power you need and a bit more ability to be handled while keeping your shoulder in its socket.

2026-04-18 03:12:31 UTC

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Given you're not looking just for function, you could do worse than to just look at the H&R Pardner .12 gauge. At under $200 it'll leave you without needing to part with many sats.
https://civiliandefender.com/2023/01/21/the-long-term-budget-shotgun-the-hr-pardner-12-gauge-the-chinese-made-remington-870-with-a-humpback-receiver/
Or you could play with something a little less made in China and still keep it under $300, like the Stevens 320.
Point is, you don't need to spring for a Browning.

2026-04-17 14:49:38 UTC

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I think people are still just attached to engagement. I don't post for y'all, I post because otherwise I'm sitting here talking out loud to myself and my family starts getting annoyed, and the dogs start looking worried. Seems like others feel differently about why they post, and so the centralized platforms have some sort of allure or other based on their dopamine hits.

2026-04-17 00:25:45 UTC

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Did you just wrong pronoun my dog while she was literally laying upside down with her legs spread in the direct sunlight? Lol.

2026-04-16 19:03:16 UTC

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Looks like a worthy mission. Also not sure how much I still buy the promise of Matrix. I'm usually leaning more back to 'let's just finally actually adopt xmpp after 25 years.'
There's a lot of stuff that looks nice but I like to keep my stacks lower to the ground to avoid too many dependencies that could introduce issues. Big reason I decided I won't be bothering with specter (but will be learning my way around bitcoin-cli more).
Minimalism has always resonated more with me anyway.

2026-04-16 18:35:33 UTC

Don't forget to get some sunshine! https://npub1lcetwt8hcd9gagdytu4e35ufykxek0elfvx8q3spugmgj9x0ev0q363apw.blossom.band/a02c470852399b6b81bbf24aaa1eefdf1370288e31c8d46a8a07b7dbfedc6dc6.jpg

2026-04-16 14:46:59 UTC

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What might be really fun is a gif event type so we could expand beyond these centralized gif repos, and get them out on blossom servers, with tags in the events for searchability.
Though might need some WOT or something to handle things like animated goatse tagged as #wholesome and other such shenanigans. So it goes with media hosting...

2026-04-16 11:54:53 UTC

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Perpetual dilution of equity is where the yield comes from. And the fact that it results in a positive yield is because of the delta between the performance of assets and the cost of liabilities. It's essentially net interest margin. Or, perhaps, net discount margin, as bitcoin is being bought at a greater discount to future value than shares are being sold at.
Not to defend the model too much. It is still kicking the can down the road. At some point Bitcoin's growth slows and that discount gap shrinks, and may even invert. Unlike Bitcoin, there is such a thing as holding these products long enough that it really is 'too long.'
But for addressing short term cash flow needs, eh. It's not a product for Bitcoiners. But it does do what it says it does.

2026-04-13 08:44:21 UTC

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If it was round, why would they call it a plane-t?
Lol please don't mute me.
https://blossom.primal.net/e05549366644263823616e65603bd4ab0788795503cd8a5357241bdcf6e92ba9.gif

2026-04-13 08:40:52 UTC

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Or to thank you for a great talk to kick off a great weekend. Thanks for that 😊.
My brain is still a little melted by Liam's talk. I should have been wary of someone busting out a Glock in an auditorium 😂.

2026-04-12 00:20:49 UTC

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We do have electric stoves at least. And freezers for freeze distillation.
But yes, they may still get some overtime.

2026-04-11 18:13:20 UTC

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I've seen a beef based sauce that looked a LOT like soy sauce. Looked like the process of making it was time consuming, involved, and expensive. But it exists!

2026-04-11 18:12:04 UTC

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Hmm, lot of symbolism to play with in that dream.
Idk about a video haha, been quite a few years since I really played with ceremonial magick.

2026-04-10 18:00:26 UTC

My dad just informed me they found out who Satoshi is.
Why are boomers allowed to vote?

2026-04-10 15:12:31 UTC

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I think regionally lunch meat style chicken is known as chicken ham. That's definitely what that looks like.

2026-04-10 13:55:27 UTC

@npub1vwy…zugd A few thoughts about your idea of a quantum ready fork:
The mining factor seems to be the biggest reason this is unlikely to work even if we wanted it to. The difficulty adjustment would, at the time of the split, be set based on our >1 ZH/s, and it's unlikely that we'd have anything close to that much available. I suppose it might be feasible to look at merge mining, but merge mining here would have all of the same centralization concerns it has elsewhere that it is used.
Even if we handle this, manually setting the difficulty lower (assuming this can be done, I'm decidedly not a coder), there's the matter of what block you fork from. Because of course anyone who transacts after the split can then go use their coins on the other fork, and while we wait for a quantum attack, the chains have time to diverge heavily.
You could consider splitting AFTER a quantum attack, with a roll back, a la Ethereum Classic (gross...), but even this assumes you recognize an attack as a quantum attack and not just someone losing their keys. There is no reason to assume that they would be foolish enough to make it this obvious, as it'd be much more sensible to appear to just be someone losing their keys.
The latest episode of @npub1pxy…7nke actually had some very good thoughts on how to address quantum. I don't think it's quite as close (or likely to ever happen) as Danny's guest, but I do think his proposed actions as if it were are a sane approach. Rolling out these proposed fixes on Testnet, Signet, etc, and then encouraging people who aren't devs to actually USE these systems to really give it some testing makes a lot of sense. Hard to incentivize this given that testnet tokens are decidedly worthless, but perhaps wallets that put it a little more front and center as a way to help new people to Bitcoin learn their way around without putting real money at risk wouldn't be the worst thing anyway.
I get your rationale for considering a fork, but yea, logistically I don't think it could quite work out as well as you'd like. It might shut up the retards because they'd be too retarded to see why it shouldn't, but in terms of actually fixing anything I think it'd miss the mark. And meanwhile, building things for retards is a really good way to waste a lot of time and energy.

2026-04-10 13:23:43 UTC

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It CAN, but waving a dagger around drawing pentagrams in the air and yelling the names of God while calling on Archangels can be really fun too... especially if you go all out with the robes, altar, and circle...

2026-04-10 13:07:40 UTC

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Korean winter food to Hawaiian food. Hmm, the sauce flavor profile there could be interesting. I suppose a gochujang mayo mix does work just fine (with some mirin, soy, and whatever else you make your poké sauce with).

2026-04-10 12:44:04 UTC

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GM.
And yes, fuck anyone that doesn't agree 1 BTC = 1 BTC.
Including Braiins with their hashpower marketplace.

2026-04-10 12:43:10 UTC

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Risking salmonella with raw chicken, totally worth it.

2026-04-08 11:33:51 UTC

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Yep.
Just amused because the caveman talk is also bypassing natural language -- just more slightly. I'm just amused at the stectrum the path begins down back to conventional programming.

2026-04-08 11:31:25 UTC

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I didn't say don't buy MSTR. I asked if he addressed the reasons for not doing so. As with most portfolio matters, it boils down to sizing. But the risks to common stock in a levered company involve layers upon layers of counterparty risk, including the very real risk of government seizure. And the Sharpe ratio disparity is night and day.
They're two wildly different roles in a portfolio. One is bedrock. The other is a high risk speculative position. You'd think someone who sells more MSTR than anyone would be able to articulate this. Especially on an interview about why buying Bitcoin makes so much sense.

2026-04-08 09:54:18 UTC

GM
I'm hearing that people are having Claude talk like a caveman to reduce token spend. Seems to make sense -- make the output less verbose, more efficient. It's not a human after all.
We could also take this further, and perhaps have it use some sort of standardized shorthand that the computer uses. Maybe build in some additional looping so that when it's doing the same thing but slightly differently, it doesn't write out the whole thing each time. I'd call this something descriptive. Like, say "function."
I bet you could also save even more tokens by using the same type of shorthand for input, instead of natural language. Using this standardized shorthand (we could call it something like "code") to pass instructions to Claude. It may save more than tokens too -- I assume that less bandwidth would be used for uploading the instructions, and likely, less memory and cpu cycles too thanks to the smaller size. We might even be able to shave resources even further, using this standardization, by creating a new model -- one that doesn't use the inefficiencies of natural language, but instead, only parses this "code." This new model, being much smaller, wouldn't be appropriately called an LLM, due to not being large. It'd deserve a name more fitting. Something like "interpreter."
I bet if it were made small enough we could even run it locally on user machines -- even cell phones -- instead of in a datacenter somewhere. Allowing anyone to use it basically for free on their own hardware, privately. To run even faster for "code" we want to use often, we could further slim it down by having an "interpreter" convert it, or "compile" it, into an even shorter version, that only the computer itself will understand, but will completely dispense with the extra punctuation, so it runs even faster.
Man that'd be a really cool advancement in computing.
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2026-04-08 00:45:51 UTC

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I'll have to listen to see if he actually addressed the most important one: why you buy Bitcoin instead of MSTR.

2026-04-07 22:10:52 UTC

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Yup

2026-04-07 17:47:20 UTC

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You're getting a new phone in a way that doesn't make the battery replacement still a lot cheaper? Without getting an OEM locked phone (the mistake I made)? What carrier?

2026-04-07 15:18:15 UTC

GM.
A public service announcement for today: We call keep citing the national debt at $35 Trillion. This is out of date, as I just noticed while glancing at the National Debt Clock. It's actually $39 Trillion now.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

2026-04-06 10:28:26 UTC

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Looks like it's just the Sunday Evening/Monday Morning pump, which gets offset by the Thursday Morning dump. Chop chop chop chop chop...
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2026-04-06 10:21:08 UTC

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>trained cinematographer
>claims not to be a Jew
Hmm... 🙃
But yes, interesting information.

2026-04-04 14:21:49 UTC

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Wow late night posting. Openclaw, not claudebot...