MachuPikacchu
Machu Pikacchu

Interested in bitcoin and physics and their intersection.

https://github.com/machuPikacchuBTC/bitcoin

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2026-04-13 22:47:13 UTC

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Haven’t ran qwen in a minute but it’s surprising you’re not getting higher throughput for gemma4 on your 3090s.
For what it’s worth if you use llama.cpp and disable reasoning you should see faster time to first byte at the cost of a slight degradation in quality. Haven’t used vllm so can’t comment there. I get 70-75 tok/s on a macbook m3 for comparison and only have 40 GPU cores

2026-03-05 00:34:36 UTC

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StarCraft 2 right? C&C Red Alert 2 is a close second.

2026-02-27 17:44:47 UTC

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OpenCode and locally running GLM4.7-flash is surprisingly good. That can be done on a decent sized mac mini. It won’t keep up with frontier models but it’s far better than the average developer when used correctly.
I 100% agree with you about the centralization in general though. There’s some promising early stage research going on: https://github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/OpenDiloco

2026-02-20 23:45:22 UTC

No matter the fiat price, bitcoin is fuck you money.

2026-01-28 05:36:28 UTC

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Bitcoin or ibit?

2026-01-20 15:20:18 UTC

Cellular automata (CA) are underrated.
Most people’s experience with them are simply Conway’s Game of Life or similar setups. The topic is much deeper than that though. Some 2D CA are in fact Turing complete [1] and can be used to perform any computation (albeit inefficiently).
So what? Why not just use python or if you're really bored use a transformer model? Because in this context it's not about doing the computation but rather what we can learn about computation in general. The beautiful thing about CA is that they are naturally visual and we can see emergent patterns at a glance while they work.
First consider that ALL scripts, models, charts, etc. on computers are discrete. Then understanding the simplest discrete systems (ie. CA) may give us an idea of the limitations of the more complex ones. In fact, even simple, deterministic systems can produce unpredictable behavior [2]. And sometimes even complex rules don’t lead to complex output.
It also turns out that there's a natural connection between convolutional neural networks and CA [3] so this touches on important topics in AI. This is the focus of my current research and I'm hoping to publish more on that eventually (not under this nym of course).
I recommend more people get creative with studying cellular automata.
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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_30
3. https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02942

2026-01-19 18:51:31 UTC

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The billionaire that created a social media platform that censored lots of people and cooperated with the feds? The one that created a hardware wallet that prevents any possibility of privacy?
I’m not anti-bitchat but also uninstalled it after the first week. Nothing wrong with experimenting. We need better tools.

2026-01-06 23:31:48 UTC

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Why California? If someone lives in Chicago for example why would California have any claim on it?
Regardless of the type of asset, bitcoin or otherwise, this law just makes no sense unless it only applies to California residents. And even then it still makes no sense.

2025-12-30 18:31:34 UTC

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Here’s one example: https://tribuneonlineng.com/china-rolls-out-humanoid-robots-at-busy-vietnam-border-crossing/
“Deployment is expected to begin this December” and since we’re at the end of December and I’m not a world renowned journalist I figured it’s acceptable to say they’ve been rolling them out.
Without physically going there ourselves we’ll just have to rely on the sparse reporting and vague timelines but in any case it’s a very real issue that is being publicized by the company and government involved and I’m not sure why you’re being so pedantic.

2025-12-30 16:20:39 UTC

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Why accuse me of lying?
It depends on which source you look at online; some are saying it’s already being rolled out and others say it’s in the process.
And in any case does it matter if it happens next week or happened last week? The contracts are signed and the robots are real and there’s clearly motivation to deploy these things. It’s not “years from now” from what the reports are saying. Whether those publishers are lying is a different story.

2025-12-29 15:16:08 UTC

China has been deploying humanoid robots to its border with Vietnam [1]. This is just the beginning; expect this trend to proliferate to other countries over time and for the robots to become much more capable.
This raises a lot of obvious concerns but one that jumps out to me is the removal of the general public from its own security. Security is being outsourced away from the group who ostensibly wants to be secured and at the sole discretion of a class of people codified into law as “above everyone else” (ie. the State).
This is happening within the broader context of general automation where factories are being automated top to bottom in more and more industries. The general public has less influence in society at an unprecedented scale.
In AI circles there’s always been the concept of the “alignment problem” where researchers are worried about advanced AI being aligned with humans but until we can figure out alignment between groups of us there’s no real “extra” threat posed by advanced AI for the vast majority of people.
1. https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3334081/ubtech-wins-us37-million-deal-deploy-humanoid-robots-china-vietnam-border-crossings

2025-12-23 22:15:48 UTC

Why does Saylor even care about the “quantum threat” to Bitcoin (whether it’s real or perceived) if he doesn’t custody it and doesn’t transact with it anyway?

2025-12-21 20:51:21 UTC

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Going on stage and hugging a well known cracked out celebrity with a smile on your face shortly after your spouse is assassinated is textbook grief

2025-12-21 20:48:56 UTC

Burning OG coins to preempt a theoretical attack is kinda insane. And it won’t be clear even when there is one available. If I were a malicious actor without one I’d use every trick to steal xprivs and wait for a quantum hype cycle and move all at once to really stoke FUD.
The truth is we won’t actually know until it becomes commonplace.
#note1sta…9wdq

2025-12-21 00:49:09 UTC

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Take care, AK!

2025-12-18 19:38:53 UTC

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Can’t tell if that’s a joke or not but it’s hilarious either way

2025-12-18 18:18:16 UTC

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Ran ~10 years of documents through Haiku to pull out specific info. That was just the initial run too. Another 15 years to go 😭

2025-12-18 15:53:04 UTC

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We’re arguably already there but many people have taken notice and we have momentum in the right direction.

2025-12-18 15:51:07 UTC

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In a similar boat. Burned well over 1 billion tokens one morning 😂

2025-12-17 13:29:28 UTC

Remember your ABCs:
Always Be Curious

2025-12-16 12:31:57 UTC

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Since they didn't get a court ruling it didn't set a legal precedent, true, but it does affect the prosecution office's future policies and decisions on which charges to bring and who to target.
Imagine you're a target someday. You're more likely to take a plea than to fight the charge after seeing how much money it cost the Samourai devs and they still ended up in prison.
It makes the prosecution's job a little easier and they're gaining ground on their war on privacy.

2025-12-16 01:10:01 UTC

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This is how email centralized too. All of the activity centralized into a few service providers because of spam and the inconvenience of running the servers.
In this case the banks will custody Bitcoin and refuse to send to addresses that haven’t been approved. Over time coins flow into their system and don’t leave. Of course they can’t do that right away but it’s coming.
Run a node. Self custody. Teach self custody.

2025-12-16 00:51:49 UTC

Happy for the Samourai devs to possibly have their freedom back.
The downside is that a shameful legal precedent was set along the way. There’s a lot of work ahead of us.
#FreeSamourai
#note14wg…axfr

2025-12-12 19:04:42 UTC

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Yes, fantastic idea!

2025-12-10 20:19:52 UTC

Burned through >1B tokens just this morning. The token economy is real lol

2025-12-10 19:36:43 UTC

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Probably at least partially because they added “tail emissions” and therefore there’s no limit to the supply. It’s better than fiat of course but that’s heresy for most of us.
Another reason, as far as I can tell, is that due to its nature auditing the existing supply is nontrivial and if there’s an inflation bug for example then it can go unnoticed for a long time.
Others also point out that it’s not as anonymous as its proponents claim although I’ve never looked too much into it so can’t weigh in there.
And finally there’s the attack on privacy in general and online you can’t tell the difference between genuine public opinion and manufactured opinion from shitheads like the ECB. There’s very likely a lot of propaganda against it (not to say there’s not genuine disgust from real bitcoiners 😂).

2025-12-09 18:09:08 UTC

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And now this tune is stuck in my head

2025-12-09 17:40:12 UTC

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Where are you getting the idea you can’t run a bitcoin node or lightning node from home? I personally run a bitcoin node at home and have for years. It’s not even difficult actually.
It sounds like you’re not a fan of bitcoin in general? To each their own I guess but to say that you want self custody and that because homes don’t come standard with nodes bitcoin isn’t worthwhile is a contradiction.
Running the software is a fundamental part of self custody otherwise you’re trusting other people to process your transactions and to be honest about it.

2025-12-09 15:59:37 UTC

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Lightning network channels are secured by the same miners since it’s just users exchanging signed bitcoin transactions out of band. At any point either party in the channel can broadcast the latest transaction and settle on chain. Up until that point it’s the same cryptography that secures all the other UTXOs.
You can run a lightning node from home on top of your standard bitcoin node so you don’t have to share control any more than you do for the base chain.
For what it’s worth I agree that lightning isn’t ideal especially for beginners but I use it all the time and it mostly works fine. Had my fair share of frustrations with it too.

2025-12-09 15:37:49 UTC

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Can you explain what you mean about it not being a “p2p proof of work cryptocurrency like bitcoin”.
It’s a network of 2-2 multisig contracts on bitcoin. The proof of work is derived from the sats locked up in the contracts. It’s not meant to be a separate cryptocurrency because it’s just a way of using Bitcoin in the end.

2025-12-07 12:26:36 UTC

One of the most important and influential papers of the last decade was “Attention is all you need” and people are out here giving all their attention to Meta and TikTok. 🙄😂

2025-12-05 21:28:01 UTC

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There are! Once you allow the axiom of infinity you end up with an infinite number of distinct infinities actually; we say that they each have different "cardinality." I had to prove all sorts of statements about infinite sets in a topology course I took years ago but I'm rusty at this point.
A set is said to be infinite if there exists a bijection between itself and a proper subset. So for example, there's a 1-1 mapping between the set of integers and the set of even integers: for each integer multiply it by 2 and you get the evens; for each even integer divide it by 2 and you get the whole set of integers again. That doesn't work for any finite set.
And suppose you have an infinite set, S. Then the set of all subsets of S (called the power set of S) actually has a higher cardinality than S itself and there doesn't exist a bijection between S and its power set even though both are infinite.
However, again all that supposes you accept the concept of an infinity in the first place because only then can you construct all those things. Modern math assumes it as a given.

2025-12-05 18:47:28 UTC

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It was a fun shower thought!

2025-12-05 17:49:50 UTC

Turns out Gauss wasn’t a fan of the concept of infinity either [1].
"Actual infinity does not exist. What we call infinite is only the endless possibility of creating new objects no matter how many exist already"
Henri Poincare also objected to the idea of infinity [2].
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_Cantor's_theory#Reception_of_the_argument
2. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40329-013-0007-z
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2025-12-05 14:43:06 UTC

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“The total curvature theorem that gives us some multiple of pi for any closed loop rewrites integrating over a continuous set”
Must’ve had a stroke when typing that line 😂. It should’ve said:
“The total curvature theorem that gives us some multiple of pi for any closed loop *requires* integrating over a continuous set”

2025-12-05 14:36:53 UTC

*Long note on math*
ZF(C) set theory is the basis of modern math and includes the axiom of infinity; something we grant as obvious. "There's no number so big that you can't add 1 to it."
Yet nothing we can observe or measure in reality is infinite. Not the size of the observable universe nor all observable particles in it nor even all possibles states of all observable particles (hot take; see below for explanation).
Should we really use that axiom?
Even the digits of pi can’t be fully observed. Spend all available resources building as many computers as you can and use all matter for computation from now until the heat death of the universe and nothing and nobody will ever experience or observe more than a finite number of digits of pi.
You could argue that we need irrational numbers for algebraic closure. Fine. But even then, in practice on computers or in hand written solutions only finite-precision representations exist. Not a single engineering project in existence relies on full precision of pi or the square root of 2. Yes, even the LHC and LIGO.
"But the ratio of the circumference of a circle and its diameter is pi. That ratio has infinite precision." Well, almost! That assumes a Platonic ideal circle; you're introducing new assumptions even in such a basic concept. Good luck creating such a perfect circle in reality (nothing against the band with MJK). The total curvature theorem that gives us some multiple of pi for any closed loop rewrites integrating over a continuous set so implicitly assumes infinity (ie. infinitely divisible).
What about quantum mechanics? Hilbert spaces as far as the eyes can see! We need a state space rich enough to represent continuous observables like momentum. But that's a circular argument! We claim the observables are continuous but as far as I can tell that's just an assumption. Our theories break down below the planck length which means we can't just assume spacetime is continuous; at best it's a useful approximation.
Continuous spacetime also creates problems like black hole singularities. I think most physicists agree singularities are a flaw in the models and don't represent reality. Quoting Oppenheimer:
"Physically such a singularity would mean that the expression used for the energy-momentum tensor does not take account of some essential physical fact which would really smooth the singularity out. Further ... it is impossible for a singularity to develop in a finite time" - 'On Continued Gravitational Contraction'
And according to Hawking eventually black holes dissipate thus removing the singularity. You can't go from infinite to finite density in finite time yet that's the best our theories have come up with.
We have tools like renormalization to cut out the infinities in some sense and to be honest I don't fully understand the logic there, but it ultimately boils down to using infinities to cancel out other infinities that pop up in our models that, yeah you guessed it, are built on continuous space and therefore more infinities!
In conclusion, as far as I can tell all uses of infinities are useful approximations to make math easier but have quite possibly led us astray.

2025-12-03 13:07:04 UTC

Interested in learning more about #quantum computation and quantum information theory?
You can read one of the most influential books in the space for free here [1]. There's also this repo that includes code for quantum algorithms and problem sets [2].
With all the quantum talk these days it may be useful to sit down with your favorite LLM and go through the book. I plan to do that over the next few months (emphasis on plan 😅).
1. https://profmcruz.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/quantum-computation-and-quantum-information-nielsen-chuang.pdf
2. https://github.com/JackHidary/quantumcomputingbook

2025-12-02 11:52:44 UTC

Been seeing a lot of negative sentiment about Bitcoin lately. Why?
I transferred fiat between two banks accounts the other day and it’s still pending. Can’t use it at all for a few more days. Want to send more than $1k to a family member in need? Can’t do it with zelle or venmo in just one payment.
That fiat money you shoved under your mattress back in 2021? It buys fewer goods and services now but Bitcoin buys more. Maybe it didn’t outperform the AI bubble but that’s fine. Savings isn’t the same as investment; never has been.
Bitcoin is a better payment rail and it’s not even close. It’s a better savings technology for those who plan to live beyond the next 4 years. For the first time we have digital money we can actually own!
Nobody said a monetary revolution would be easy. Don’t cry about it. Appreciate all the cypherpunks out there who gave us options.

2025-12-01 17:26:04 UTC

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Would love the cheap sats but they recently announced a $1.4B USD reserve to pay dividends and debts for 1-2 years if needed.
Le’s statement about selling if mNAV goes below 1 to keep the BTC yield up is also unlikely because they could instead buy back shares and achieve the same thing.
Doubt they’ll sell in the next few years 😔

2025-12-01 15:26:13 UTC

Some light reading for anyone using multisig and wanting a little more privacy: https://github.com/mflaxman/blind-xpub

2025-12-01 15:11:24 UTC

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In hindsight, in my humble opinion, javascript was a mistake. It opened a pandora’s box of complexity that’s made browser implementation difficult to secure and over time led to centralization.
Now only a handful of implementations exist and modern websites are painful to browse without an ad blocker and other extensions. Couple that with the big companies shoving privacy invading AI into the browsers as fast as possible and the war on ad-blocking and we’re accelerating into a situation where users have no control over the content they see.
However, just like Nostr is trying to fix social media (and other stuff) I think we’ll find a way to break the browser oligopoly.

2025-11-30 20:53:32 UTC

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The term vote implies the action carries one of two values but zaps give you also magnitude so it tells you more. That alone means “vote” is not the right word.
On top we can react with emojis each of which carries information distinct from “yes/no/abstain” so again I think “vote” is not the right idea.
All that said, haven’t thought about a better label. Just wanted to add that it’s more than just semantics 😅

2025-11-29 19:39:26 UTC

Writing open source privacy software (legally protected by first amendment; see Bernstein v USA) and posting effectively politically incorrect jokes (also legally protected by the first amendment) resulted in jail time.
At no point did they have control over anyone else’s funds. This case shows a clearly corrupted justice system. This happened to all of us in this community and we would do well to take lessons from Phil Zimmerman [1].
It will not get better on its own. The least you can do is talk to your friends and family about the need for privacy and free speech and show how both are under attack. If capable, build better systems. We all have a role to play. #FreeSamourai
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann
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2025-11-26 14:15:20 UTC

Seeing just how useful tools like Claude Code are for building freedom tech it feels like they’ll have to be handicapped at some point.
There’s no way governments will just let the inmates break out of the prison like this.

2025-11-25 21:12:32 UTC

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The beauty of the protocol is that you can implement clients that can rate limit content per user. You can do simple things like only show the first 3 posts per user per day or as complex as having a local LLM read each message and categorize it based on your criteria and filter out low effort content. With that setup you can follow a much larger set of npubs.

2025-11-25 18:45:30 UTC

It’s nearly impossible to create a new browser these days largely because of just how large and expansive the web standards have grown. And because we’re all held hostage by the big tech companies and their browser implementations they’re adding malicious features like having AI read and interact with every page it visits.
If you look at most websites they all have a very similar look and feel or at least fit into one of a handful of categories. It’s time to create a new, intentionally limited, spec that lets content providers still do business but without all the complex interactivity like modals, javascript, async loading, etc. that just bloats the standards.
Consider how limited bitcoin transactions are by comparison. Many people complain and say you can’t build things properly on Bitcoin and yet we have a working system delivering value to millions of people. The simplicity is a feature.

2025-11-25 14:01:03 UTC

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The vigilante crossing guard we never knew we needed

2025-11-25 12:20:28 UTC

There’s a lot of talk these days about humanoid robots but I have yet to see anything about securing them.
We can’t secure our phones but we want a robot army walking around in every house and factory? How many OEMs have released unsecured routers, cars, security cameras, etc that leave customers exposed to the battlefield we call the Internet?
Honestly, until we figure that out having robots everywhere is just a liability in my opinion.

2025-11-21 20:24:32 UTC

This.
Q-day comes before BIP 360 is finalized? Riding this all the way to 0.
Saylor market dumps and becomes a Fartcoin maxi? Riding to 0.
Turns out Satoshi was literally Hitler? Damn that sucks. Riding. To. Zero.
Cold storage sats are for use as money one day or for nothing at all. Not trading back to fiat regardless of price.
#note13fr…hjck

2025-11-21 13:07:44 UTC

Wall St entered the game when Bitcoin was at $42k. If they’re getting rinsed there’s a chance we’ll retest those levels. Not my base case. Not financial advice. And as always GFY.
#note12yk…nwu8

2025-11-21 12:19:58 UTC

Thanks for the cheap sats. Get rekt Wall St.

2025-11-21 11:25:18 UTC

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The central bank cartel knows Bitcoin is a credible threat to their monopoly and with all the corporate and sovereign adoption this year they’re allowing capital destruction to a much greater extent than they did in the past.
They’re hoping to stamp out the “Bitcoin is the solution to inflation” narrative while they can. Emphasis on the word “hoping”

2025-11-21 11:18:34 UTC

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And also Bone Thugs ‘n Harmony

2025-11-21 11:15:01 UTC

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Things are looking bright if you measure your net worth in sats rather than fiat.

2025-11-19 12:07:53 UTC

Much lower. Then higher.

2025-11-18 16:23:01 UTC

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Important to note that there are no secure systems with internet access.
Even air gapped doesn't imply security in general (e.g. SATAn sata cable exfiltration [1], Stuxnet [2]).
Of course, defend yourself to the best of your abilities and don't make yourself an easy target, but understand the inherent risks of all things digital.
1. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9851978
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

2025-11-18 16:08:48 UTC

After Bitcoin and Nostr the whole concept of “accounts” feels so archaic.

2025-11-18 10:36:38 UTC

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There’s a lot of passive income flowing into SP500 from 401k contributions to prop it up. Only once the business cycle rolls over or some acute event will we see that decline, right?
I think Bitcoin is a leading indicator in this case. The gov shutdown drained the economy when it was already weak. On top of that massive deleveraging last month that surely wiped out some big players.
Even gold, which central banks have been stacking hard, is down nearly 10% off its ATH.

2025-11-17 23:06:39 UTC

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Looks really bearish near term.
Credit card debt is surging, auto loan delinquencies near all time highs for subprime borrowers, commercial real estate is struggling, millions in the US went many weeks without pay recently due to the shutdown, etc.
None of that recovers in just a few weeks which means we’ve got plenty of dip left to go.

2025-11-17 20:35:48 UTC

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Liquidity continues to drain. Expect more of this for a while. Consider how the government shutdown, which left a LOT of people without paychecks for many weeks, trickles out into the rest of the economy.
On top of that we had a lot of DOGE layoffs prior to that which also drains liquidity. Combine that with having had interest rates higher for longer than many expected and debt rolling over at higher rates in the commercial real estate market and other highly leveraged sectors and you can see why despite all the bullish news we’ve had sustained drawdowns.
Credit card debt is surging. Auto loans are falling behind. It’s looking really bad for the US economy which is looking relatively good compared to many other “advanced economies.”
It’s anyone’s guess but personally I don’t see this turning around until well after the Fed and the treasury decide to actively stimulate. No real news on that front. Likely early next year or later. There are still lingering concerns about government funding I think as well.

2025-11-16 20:45:19 UTC

If you measure your net worth in sats and have net income then dips (however prolonged) are beneficial.
It’s only when you measure your net worth in fiat that dips become stressful.
You could argue that with fiat denominated liabilities and lower price that your purchasing power has declined. That’s unavoidable.
Until you’ve onboarded all of your dependencies (food supplier, energy, etc) onto the network you’ll have to play the fiat games. This is why merchants accepting bitcoin is critical. Ideally directly and in self custody since in that case the trade can truly be denominated in sats.
Having a corporation in the middle, even if well intentioned, leaves room for fiat shenanigans to creep in and where possible should be avoided. This is not to say the recent work by Block is bad or unhelpful because I do appreciate their role in introducing bitcoin to millions of people. We just have a lot more work to do.

2025-11-15 12:40:26 UTC

We would do well to learn from how Microsoft used their “embrace, extend, extinguish” strategy [1] to co-opt open standards for their benefit at the expense of basically everyone else.
Imagine an influential company like MSTR (or even a seemingly benevolent company like Block) doing similar with the Lightning network for example.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

2025-11-14 15:22:28 UTC

This is how I imagine the Salem Witch Trials got started
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2025-11-13 15:19:02 UTC

The only sustainable way to counteract OGs selling large stacks is by using Bitcoin as money. Hodling alone does nothing.
#note106h…jp03

2025-11-11 19:59:52 UTC

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Not the circular economy we hoped for, but it counts!
https://image.nostr.build/e584a70c3f457eba3cb42fea696459517a027facb2478100d7059f8af904cc96.jpg

2025-11-08 13:00:41 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/3180c16c3fe7e36715b7d247d204d1cde03fa89536176d2fb9032307abb52b0d.gif

2025-11-07 13:02:42 UTC

MSFT gates access to a lot of the world’s software. We need as many backups as we can get.
#note1s2y…zgt9

2025-11-06 21:52:33 UTC

Thinking about the filters debate, it dawned on me that it's all a moot point: 80 bytes may be enough to use as a latent space in an autoencoder [1].
For example, you could encode an image (ie. embed it in the latent space), convert the latent vector to a consensus valid address, and publish to the chain. Then you release the decoder half of the autoencoder publicly (say on nostr) and anyone could interpret that image (or any image encoded with the encoder half) if they ran the decoder.
That's effectively what happens when inscribing a jpeg. Granted we use traditional software for rendering/decoding the image but I don't see much distinction.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoencoder

2025-11-06 21:33:26 UTC

#FreeSamourai

2025-11-06 19:11:06 UTC

Baby steps towards a Dyson Sphere [1].
Initially this is a satellite constellation around the earth but over a long enough timespan it’s a race to capture as much energy as possible from the sun.
And if this works you can imagine ASICs making their way up to space too since electricity makes up a large percentage of the operating costs.
If starship makes good on its promise to drive the cost of space access down 100x and we already have the research and designs for running servers efficiently in space (from this Google project eventually) then ASICs quickly follow.
https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/

2025-11-06 16:49:24 UTC

I love you all, but some of you need to get back with your ex or something because you clearly don’t have enough drama in your life 😂

2025-11-06 15:22:17 UTC

People were hating on Gensler for pushing back on ETFs but have you considered that maybe an ETF for money doesn’t make sense and those products encourage the “bitcoin is property; lever up against it instead” narrative?
It was inevitable that Wall St would show up but it’s not something to celebrate. They blew a hole in the housing market years ago and we still haven’t fully recovered. They’re not good bedfellows.

2025-11-06 15:17:03 UTC

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Fair and all the more reason to run a node and use sats instead of fiat so we can minimize any paper out there.

2025-11-06 13:54:43 UTC

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This is why we need to focus more on using it as money (ie increase demand) than “store of value” because that’s just a dead end into ETFs.
Also, people’s expectations were way out of line this cycle. It’s the first time since Bitcoin has been around that central banks around the world have actively fought inflation. Liquidity has been draining off and on the past two years. The 4 year cycle thesis misled many.

2025-11-05 18:19:25 UTC

Support the retailers willing to accept sats for goods.
Experience the difference between an ETF and free range bitcoin for yourself!
(I have no affiliation with any vendors nor have I ever had one. Just an npub trying to get off fiat)
#note19yg…ul2c

2025-11-05 00:47:40 UTC

What a crazy coincidence all those predatory bitcoin loans came on to the market with high interest and terrible LTV ratio requirements right before the price took a nosedive so that debtors have to pledge even more collateral or just straight up lose what they’ve loaned against. The banks got lucky!

2025-11-04 17:38:58 UTC

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Khan academy is great!
Linear algebra is one of the best branches of math to learn because it’s the foundation for so many fields.

2025-11-04 17:36:01 UTC

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Agreed about LLMs reinforcing errors. They aren't grounded the same way software like Mathematica are and can lead students astray.
For now I think they could be useful for people to explore ideas that lend well to verifiable feedback. For example, writing software that has a compiler or the user can manually inspect the output to see if it aligns with their vision. It opens the doors to try out things that we may otherwise forego because the expected payoff is too low.

2025-11-04 14:45:35 UTC

In one of my first courses on linear algebra we were taught how to do things by hand initially but from there we did everything in Mathematica.
That may seem like "cheating" or that the students wouldn't retain the lesson since a computer was doing all the work. I strongly disagree with that view in hindsight.
We were able to explore visually what matrices did to the inputs. For example, eigenvectors are the axes along which some action would happen and the eigenvalues determine the quality and degree (ie. reflection, expansion, contraction, etc.). If you're doing calculations by hand it's hard to get enough examples to build intuition and without spending a lot of time you can't "tinker with" the numbers to the same extent.
The same is going to be true of LLMs and similar tech. Sure, they can do a lot of "thinking" for you and some will argue it leads to brain rot (and maybe it will!) but it also enables you to explore many more possibilities in your finite time than you otherwise could.

2025-10-31 15:17:25 UTC

Happy bitcoin whitepaper day to those who hodl

2025-10-29 16:58:31 UTC

We can’t even secure our laptops and now we’ve got companies pitching home robots that are always online 😂

2025-10-27 13:16:34 UTC

Don’t let media of any kind (news, social, etc) distract you. They thrive on your attention and in the end you’ll have many hours/days/weeks of frustration and resentment to show for it.
What has become possible with AI these days is nothing short of insane and now is the time to build. That nagging problem you’ve had with that product or service the last few years? Replace it.
In the last two weeks I’ve stopped listening to any podcasts, browsing hacker news, and anything similar and in that time I’ve built two separate production grade systems to solve real problems I had both at work and personal life.
One of them replaces software I used with family for years and the other was something entirely new that saves me a lot of headaches at work. Minimal dependencies and none on third party platforms.
And although I’ve been writing software for two decades I built these without writing a single line of the code. Full test suite, manually reviewed, etc but the point is that we’re at a point where almost anyone can do it. Most of that was written while I was doing other things like eating lunch, in a meeting, or cooking. Don’t wait for someone else to build your app for you.

2025-10-17 20:52:56 UTC

Bitcoin itself is a filter: it’s an economic filter. Fiat is no filter.
Filters are a form of firewall.
I can’t shake this idea of using bitcoin as part of a network firewall. Anyone know of good papers on this topic?
#asknostr

2025-10-13 21:44:09 UTC

Any #tabconf meetups happening Wednesday afternoon to look out for?

2025-10-12 19:32:22 UTC

If there exists such a technology that would give you total dominance over a critical domain and you can’t guarantee you’ll have a monopoly on such tech then your best move is to work on preventing anyone else from getting that monopoly. That is the core principle behind decentralization.

2025-10-12 16:53:24 UTC

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This looks a lot like the areas of Costa Rica I wandered around in last week. Anywhere near Cartago or Turrialba by any chance?

2025-10-11 18:33:26 UTC

I leave you guys alone for a few days and the markets implode. We got an omega candle at least!
https://image.nostr.build/6c45940cf68a5cac45f3889c711328fe15f2fa1e0ea352294a1646c9080cd4bb.jpg

2025-10-03 15:50:39 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/68aee623fc80a639a45b5b3848c87bd41de5e35ad51d2d5f424e5322691aa219.jpg

2025-10-03 10:48:58 UTC

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So then the distinction comes from the idea that a payment transaction comes with the promise of a future fee (or generations of future fees) whereas a data transaction is a dead end.
That sounds like a reasonable argument.

2025-10-03 09:08:03 UTC

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I agree in spirit, but isn’t this also an argument for something akin to property taxes?
“Your UTXO hasn’t moved in 10 years but it’s being secured. You haven’t paid any fees this whole time.”
When you amortize the cost of your transaction over long enough it’s effectively the same argument, no?
In any case spam sucks and I’m not in favor of making it easier to do.

2025-10-02 19:13:56 UTC

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And then they’re immediately bombarded with porn spam. Happened to me twice after onboarding someone 😂 😭

2025-10-02 12:26:44 UTC

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What’s a good default ratio to start with? 2:1 coffee to cacao?

2025-10-01 18:56:15 UTC

For the vibe coders among us you might find this guide useful for managing context:
https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/ace-fca.md

2025-10-01 10:47:08 UTC

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Interesting idea but one thing to consider is that you’re double counting a lot of users. Everyone on the lightning network is already on the bitcoin network for example.

2025-09-30 17:07:03 UTC

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At first glance I thought it was an E30 👀

2025-09-30 11:50:19 UTC

The film “Supersize me” showed how the fast food diet destroys your health.
We need a movie where a bitcoiner goes on the fiat standard and show how it destroys your wealth.
We could call it “Fiat fuck me” or something like that.

2025-09-27 16:18:17 UTC

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It was more a comment on the fuel changing the flavor. With just pure sunlight and a clean bowl you get only the raw natural flower flavor.

2025-09-25 20:38:01 UTC

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If the Bitaxe army summons 9.8 exabits any time soon that’s a great problem to have

2025-09-19 20:01:31 UTC

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Welcome to Nostr!

2025-09-18 17:55:53 UTC

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Even worse is that if they scare you but the threats are not believable then the voters learn to ignore them so they have to have some credibility. If the threats weren’t real before then the politician has to make them real. Nice little game they created huh?