DireMunchkin

Swedish expat, living in Switzerland. Bitcoin class of 2021.

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2026-03-24 08:16:28 UTC

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You shot yourself in the foot by not supporting BIP-110 - Claiming there's no consensus on it is a lie, one in four nodes is a Knots node.
There's nothing conservative about taking a permissive attitude to spam, that's cavalier and reckless. Since you seem to criticize this very feature of Bitcoin core development, why aren't you joining the fight to fix the issues this caused?
I can't see myself running this node unless your stance on spam improves. Repeating core talking points in your announcement does not bode well.

2026-03-20 14:26:54 UTC

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I'm not that familiar with Liquid but a 40 byte OP_RETURN sounds fine. That's a standard transaction pre-v30 and would still be valid after BIP-110.

2026-03-20 13:58:10 UTC

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Correct. To be precise I should have said I'm willing to tolerate some data on the blockchain as long as the footprint is small enough that it's negligible.
Even BIP-110 does not aim to eliminate all forms of data carrying on Bitcoin, just the most harmful ones. Up to 80 bytes OP_RETURN is still possible afterwards for instance. Taproot assets are on the same order of magnitude AFAIK.

2026-03-19 23:15:36 UTC

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The main reason nobody's talking about them is that AFAIK nobody uses them either. Most shitcoiners gravitated to their own solutions for muh tokens.
Personally I also don't really care about shitcoins on second layers like Lightning. As long as you're not making my node store it you're only harming yourself by using them. 😏

2026-03-12 10:22:21 UTC

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John Mearsheimer has a substack which I would also recommend.

2026-03-11 16:50:54 UTC

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Thus solving the problem once and for all! 😂

2026-03-11 14:34:47 UTC

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The good news is that nodes still control the network, despite political games claiming they do not. Time to reassert this forcefully! #bip110

2026-03-10 17:56:47 UTC

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It doesn't: Merely writing a full node client or a fork doesn't give anybody control over anything. People need to voluntarily download and run the code in order for it to matter.
If BIP-110 succeeds that would not indicate Ocean mining or whoever hijacked Bitcoin, but that their vision of what Bitcoin is has wider legitimacy than core's does. I personally think that is the case, but let's see.

2026-03-09 20:28:47 UTC

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I'd recommend using a client that has WoT filters like I.E @npub17n4…fyh9, I hardly ever see clawdbots in replies.

2026-03-09 20:24:53 UTC

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The first clue was that he's in a group that self-titles "The Intellectual Dark Web." 🤡😂

2026-03-07 11:07:02 UTC

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I wondered if you meant to write something like "Lagarde almost sounds like a Bitcoiner when she talks about the need for **nation-states** to reclaim their financial sovereignty".
This would make sense to me because I know the ECB has frequently sold the digital euro as a way to make financial infrastructure independent of US companies.
If you really meant to put "individuals" in that sentence I don't follow your reasoning as I don't think Lagarde has ever expressed much interest in individual financial sovereignty. For European nations certainly, but individual Europeans not so much.

2026-03-06 17:15:56 UTC

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> In fact, Lagarde almost sounds like a bitcoiner when she talks about the need for _individuals_ to reclaim their financial sovereignty.
I assume you meant to write _states_ here? I don't think Madame Lagarde has much regards for individual financial sovereignty.

2026-02-28 18:15:44 UTC

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FWIW I asked Maple about this and here's what it said:
*****
Yes, on all major Linux distributions, package installation is cryptographically signed and verified by default—but the implementation varies by distribution and package format.
## How Major Distros Handle Signing
**Debian/Ubuntu (APT)**
- **Repository metadata** is signed with GPG keys. APT verifies the `Release` file signature before trusting any package lists.
- **Individual packages** are typically signed by the maintainer's key, though APT primarily trusts the repository metadata rather than verifying every package signature independently by default.
- Keys are stored in `/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/` or managed via `signed-by` in sources lists.
**RHEL/CentOS/Fedora (RPM/DNF/YUM)**
- **Packages** are GPG-signed by the packager (the `.rpm` file contains the signature).
- **Repository metadata** is also signed.
- DNF/YUM verify package signatures before installation using keys in `/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/`.
- You can check a package's signature with: `rpm -K package.rpm`
**Arch Linux (Pacman)**
- **Packages** are signed by Arch Linux developer or Trusted User keys.
- Pacman has a web of trust model; the `archlinux-keyring` package distributes trusted keys.
- Signatures are stored as separate `.sig` files.
**Alpine Linux (APK)**
- Uses **RSA signatures** (not GPG). Each package has a corresponding `.rsa.sig` file.
- Public keys are stored in `/etc/apk/keys/`.
**openSUSE (ZYpp/RPM)**
- Similar to Fedora: RPM packages are GPG-signed, and repository metadata is signed.
## Universal Package Formats
- **Flatpak**: OSTree commits are signed with GPG; apps are verified against remotes.
- **Snap**: Packages are signed; the snapd daemon verifies signatures from the Snap Store.
- **AppImage**: Generally **not signed** by default (though some projects embed signatures separately).
## Important Caveats
1. **Manual downloads**: If you manually download a `.deb` or `.rpm` from a website and install it with `dpkg -i` or `rpm -i`, signature verification may be skipped or require manual key import. Using the distro's package manager (APT/DNF) enforces verification.
2. **Disabled verification**: You can disable signature checking (e.g., `apt-get --allow-unauthenticated` or `rpm --nosignature`), but this defeats the security model.
3. **Third-party repositories**: When adding a new repo, you must manually import the GPG key. The security depends on whether you verify the key fingerprint through a trusted channel.
4. **Build-from-source**: Compiling from source code (e.g., `make install`) bypasses the package signing system entirely.
## Verification Commands
```bash
# Debian/Ubuntu: Check repository key
apt-key list
# Fedora/RHEL: Verify a package signature
rpm -qi package_name | grep Signature
# Arch: Verify package databases
pacman-key --list-sigs
# Alpine: Check keys
ls /etc/apk/keys/
```
**Bottom line:** Modern Linux distributions treat cryptographic signing as mandatory for their official repositories, protecting against man-in-the-middle attacks and package tampering. However, the security is only as strong as your key management practices and whether you verify keys when adding third-party repositories.

2026-02-28 18:06:44 UTC

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I'm not an expert on this but I know Linux Mint uses APT as the package manager - How APT does things is that each repository has a GPG key that signs each package. The repository itself is imported from a list embedded in the OS. So you really don't need to verify signatures in normal operation. You should mainly do it when downloading the OS itself and making bootable media since this is the start of the trust chain.

2026-02-25 15:01:57 UTC

I really like 24 h pulse view in @npub17n4…fyh9 - It feels like a more nostrichy solution to seeing stuff you missed than a trending algorithm. Good job @npub1syj…f6wl! 🤙

2026-02-25 14:33:03 UTC

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Shinobi's running damage control for Epstein associates himself - He sure throws a lot of stones from that glass house. 🤡

2026-02-18 19:30:04 UTC

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I'm more inclined to see it as just hodlers offloading into doing something nice for their life. Just as a personal anecdote I paid off my student loan debt last June with some of my corn. I didn't sell a very large portion of it though, and I plan to stack more.

2026-02-18 17:52:13 UTC

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Meh, it always is in bear markets. The 2022 bear the 4 year CAGR was even negative at one point. I remember that very well, as it was the first bear market I participated in.
Give it 12-18 months more hodl and we'll be back to unmatched >20% CAGR again. 🤙

2026-02-17 17:31:50 UTC

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Per Maple: "Policies were written in pounds sterling, which until 1931 meant pounds sterling as a weight of gold (or silver, prior to 1717). Underwriters posted bonds and paid claims in guineas (gold coins) and banknotes redeemable on demand for specie."

2026-02-17 17:27:20 UTC

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No, insurance is hundreds of years older than fiat currency. E.G Lloyds of London started in 1688 and the pound was gold backed at the time. Britain didn't leave the gold standard until 1914.

2026-02-16 08:53:49 UTC

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Any chance you could fix document upload in the web app? I sometimes need to upload documents from Windows, where you don't ship an app. Currently I do this on Lumo instead.

2026-02-07 14:41:07 UTC

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GM Eliza! 🌞

2026-02-07 14:01:25 UTC

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@npub1qh5…eh9r got things pretty right, he started turning progressively more bearish since late last summer IIRC.
To be fair he did not 100% call the bear market early, he's never completely definitive about what Bitcoin will do. But he did spend a lot of time discussing a bear case and assigned higher and higher probability to it in the latter half of last year.

2026-02-06 16:54:47 UTC

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I meant if you have a version of an app installed that's higher then the one indexed by Zapstore

2026-02-06 15:23:30 UTC

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Small feature request: Zapstore Stable has a little stop sign next to the app if you have a later version than the indexed one installed. I noticed this is not in the alpha any more. Could you bring this back?
https://image.nostr.build/69a49d0a76dfe9a578f42cf54e912550a546381284b496a2547331a52ab4334f.jpg

2026-02-06 15:13:23 UTC

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I think this market might be a bit more retail driven than you give it credit for. There may not be that much new people coming in at the moment but most of the existing Bitcoin is still owned by long term hodlers. These guys are with few exceptions retail, not institutional.
LTH's cashing out some of their stack during last summer to autumn materially contributed to dampening and then ending the bull market. This was clearly visible in I.E on chain revived supply.
It's also unlikely to be a coincidence that the bear started at exactly the same time as Core v30 releasing, basically to the day. This was the instigating incident of this bear IMO.
So in summary I think you're probably correct in what drives institutions, but retail still mattered a lot in this last cycle because they were the marginal seller.

2026-02-04 21:32:36 UTC

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You should look into @npub10hp…dxkr if you haven't already

2026-02-04 15:09:33 UTC

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Thanks, I'll watch this. I've been meaning to read "Churchill, Hitler, and 'The Unnecessary War'" by Pat Buchanan but haven't gotten to it yet.

2026-02-04 00:40:11 UTC

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Bitcoin Core maintainers being in the Epstein emails is by far the most important thing anybody of us should be focusing on. It's not a distraction or a frivolous matter. This is the fight we've been preparing for.

2026-01-30 13:09:36 UTC

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I've used KISS Launcher for a few years now. It's just a list of apps you use sorted by frequency with fuzzy search. Very minimal and straight into launching the apps you want to use.
https://github.com/Neamar/KISS

2026-01-20 22:26:35 UTC

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I pay for Pro - It's great! I greatly appreciate the privacy benefits over OpenAI and others. There are a lot of stuff I just wouldn't use OpenAI for that I can use Maple for.
They recently added Kimi-K2, it's a really capable AI model and can handle really complex questions well. I think it's actually the best AI in use at the moment.
With that said the UX is a bit worse than OpenAI, you lack some (for me) nonessential features like images. Document upload is a bit wonky, you can only do it in the app not on the website due to some quirk of how their E2EE works.
Overall would strongly recommend for Q/A and research tool use, they're as good as anything now on this, and with privacy to boot. If you're doing a lot of media/document work maybe less recommendable.

2026-01-16 14:20:45 UTC

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aposematism

2025-12-26 21:00:47 UTC

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2025-12-14 22:20:30 UTC

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GN 🌛

2025-12-14 20:22:25 UTC

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GM 🌞

2025-12-14 14:41:27 UTC

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Obsidian Tasks plugin, I also have notes in Obsidian so having tasks + notes in the same app is neat

2025-12-10 13:04:19 UTC

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As I understand it requires the companies to demand KYC for user accounts. Nostr not affected because it has no entity to coerce and no accounts.

2025-12-06 15:06:48 UTC

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Libertarianism is mostly non viable without cryptography as a means to defend against violence IMO. I’m as puzzled as you are why they don’t get it.

2025-12-01 20:31:43 UTC

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Exactly. Picking the one 100x stock early is akin to winning the lottery. And this is the *minimum standard* for outperforming stacking sats! 🤯
We are so lucky. 🤙

2025-12-01 19:59:38 UTC

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Hard disagree on stacking sats: If you cherry pick your time period bear to bear you can always make Bitcoin's CAGR look bad. I remember in the 2022 bear 4 year CAGR was actually negative at one point. Nobody actually has that CAGR if they DCA though.
For example as a personal anecdote my current CAGR since my first buys early 2021 is now 17%, it was more like 30% before this recent correction. Nothing else can pull these numbers just as a buy and hold strategy.
In theory you could maybe have bought i.e. Palantir at IPO and outperformed this. But realistically with retail availability and without the benefit of hindsight for stock picking there's no way.

2025-12-01 08:45:29 UTC

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GM 🌞

2025-11-30 22:20:53 UTC

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Timeshift is a lifesaver

2025-11-29 14:47:50 UTC

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PV 🤙

2025-11-26 05:07:38 UTC

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People saying GM and GN to each other in all time zones
Bitcoin and Freedom tech
Pura Vida 🤙 💜

2025-11-25 23:23:30 UTC

GN nostr 😴

2025-11-25 21:24:15 UTC

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GN 🤙

2025-11-25 21:23:06 UTC

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GN 🌛

2025-11-25 21:11:07 UTC

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😌🎶

2025-11-25 12:53:05 UTC

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Thanks for reposting 🤙

2025-11-25 11:21:33 UTC

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GM ☕

2025-11-24 21:04:30 UTC

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Incentivizing screen caps only is fiat internet for sure 🙄

2025-11-24 20:32:16 UTC

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GM 🌞

2025-11-23 21:51:36 UTC

Interesting proposal from Majorian here: https://xcancel.com/MajorianBTC/status/1983205211901448330
As an alternative to BIP-444 it would just reduce the max size of OP_RETURN to 83 bytes by consensus. Unlike BIP-444 it's permanent, not temporary, but it does not address any other form of spam / data carrying on Bitcoin. (I.E inscriptions.)
My 5 sats: I'm a bit uncomfortable with some aspects of BIP-444: It being a expiring soft fork is a first, and I don't like novel changes. The reactive activation scares the shit of out me. This change is a lot simpler and less risky.
On the other hand it will not solve the spam problem - Main thing is Inscriptions are still in after this hypothetical fork. So this seems a bit insufficient in that regard.

2025-11-22 12:23:21 UTC

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GM 🌞

2025-11-19 16:45:38 UTC

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Suitcoiners remain largely ignorant of nodes and decentralization, in other words.

2025-11-19 16:33:07 UTC

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Yeah, that about matches my expectation. If I had to guess the most common answer here is "what's a node?" 😬

2025-11-17 17:10:06 UTC

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TL;DW: More bullshit from the rag.

2025-11-16 21:07:09 UTC

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Thanks for keeping us posted

2025-11-15 16:12:58 UTC

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The Rage really is a meme 🤡😂

2025-11-14 22:21:53 UTC

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To quote @npub1gdu…6nak - "Ethereum is the mother asshole from which the shitcoins spring." 😆

2025-11-14 22:14:22 UTC

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Thank you for debunking FUD 🤙

2025-11-14 20:31:38 UTC

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I made out like a bandit from the FTX crash in the long run. Bought lots of corn at $16.5 k.

2025-11-14 20:25:52 UTC

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He is? Disappointing, if so.

2025-11-14 19:02:56 UTC

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Thank you for your service Daniel 💪

2025-11-14 17:21:41 UTC

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Well said - It's understandable normal people gravitate towards socialism when there's a cost of living crisis, but it's not really a solution .

2025-11-14 15:58:11 UTC

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@npub13lk…lpsy sounds like we need your services again 🫡

2025-11-14 15:22:11 UTC

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Cashu has finally found a use case!

2025-11-14 10:58:08 UTC

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Try https://follows.nostr.com/?

2025-11-13 14:40:09 UTC

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Reddit and Bluesky are far left of center though, wouldn't overindex on them

2025-11-09 19:17:50 UTC

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Some elite tier trolling by @npub1v6q…nzyr 😂

2025-11-09 15:09:27 UTC

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Try https://follows.nostr.com/ and see if you can recover?

2025-11-08 21:39:51 UTC

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Subsidies is how you fix inflation problems right? 🤡

2025-11-08 11:46:01 UTC

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I'd rather we didn't use that activation method if possible. Practically guaranteed chain split. Smooth planned upgrade is better.

2025-11-07 22:21:59 UTC

A lulz bounty rich indeed! 😂
#nevent1q…5uqj

2025-11-07 17:24:31 UTC

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Oh cool! Is that live yet?

2025-11-04 23:21:00 UTC

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RUG THE SPAMMERS
#nevent1q…k274

2025-11-04 23:02:45 UTC

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Sounds reasonable. Thank you for writing the BIP. 🤙

2025-11-04 17:22:44 UTC

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Don't forget unnaturally colored hair. Aposematism is a thing in humans as well. 😁

2025-11-04 15:27:56 UTC

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Never trust anybody with blue hair.

2025-11-03 16:58:42 UTC

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Pretty crazy that some governments consider even a hash of illegal content to itself be illegal 😵‍💫

2025-11-03 12:56:28 UTC

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"dog army" 🤡

2025-11-02 21:17:32 UTC

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And it also assumes there even will be more than one chain. This was my point above. Since this is not certain, trading the airdrop is super risky.

2025-11-02 16:10:13 UTC

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PSA: This is shit advice and a good way to lose all your Bitcoin. There likely will not be a (long lived) chain split regardless of what consensus wins, since this is a soft fork. There could be, but it's not guaranteed.
If you try to trade a "airdrop" you may just find the chains reorged and you sold all your actual Bitcoin, according to both clients. You have been warned.

2025-11-02 16:09:27 UTC

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2025-11-01 15:03:48 UTC

The world is healing
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/geneva-organisations/the-davos-set-in-decline-can-the-world-economic-forum-save-itself/90139318

2025-10-31 10:09:51 UTC

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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/leaker-reveals-which-pixels-are-vulnerable-to-cellebrite-phone-hacking/

2025-10-31 10:04:19 UTC

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Thanks for your work Final and co 💪

2025-10-30 21:10:08 UTC

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Zapstore is awesome. Take care of yourself. 💜

2025-10-30 18:38:33 UTC

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That's also a strong possibility.

2025-10-30 18:20:51 UTC

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So still good news, but may be a bit reversible depending on fiat politics.

2025-10-30 18:19:12 UTC

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Great news if true. I think he's mostly just kowtowing to Trump though. Same way Zuckerberg suddenly cares a lot about free speech on Facebook again and Apple is building factories in the US.

2025-10-30 18:14:56 UTC

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Agreed, I wouldn't activate it as is either but I think it'll be discussed and improved in the next months.

2025-10-30 16:48:24 UTC

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Love the nature around here! 🤩
Which canton is that? Graubünden?

2025-10-30 16:36:47 UTC

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Appreciate your busking on nostr Matthias 😄

2025-10-30 16:23:24 UTC

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I am not a lawyer, but wouldn't you also need to delete the illegal data?
This would be impossible to comply with as a Bitcoin node runner. You need an intact blockchain to run a full node. Scary situation if so.

2025-10-30 16:20:00 UTC

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That's not what it means. It means we stop storing all large data on Bitcoin, of all sorts. Nobody decides on a case basis what's good or bad.

2025-10-30 15:49:45 UTC

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Minor correction: If a block is deeply embedded in the blockchain it can be removed with a soft fork, but this would result in a chain split.
Chain splits can result from both kinds of forks.

2025-10-29 18:48:45 UTC

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@nprofile…ypja is a liar and a hack, nothing new there

2025-10-29 10:24:16 UTC

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Whatever. I'm not going to get into pedantics about this blog post. Just the fact that this is all we have to go on is the bigger problem.

2025-10-29 09:53:49 UTC

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HFSP