Nostr notes by colourorange

then i dip, dip, dip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQhD6izHFgg

2026-01-31T19:44:43Z

then i dip, dip, dip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQhD6izHFgg

slowly we unfurl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOa1a8hYP8

2025-08-07T05:09:08Z

slowly we unfurl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOa1a8hYP8

ecash enjoyoor 🙋‍♂️

2025-07-18T00:06:09Z

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ecash enjoyoor 🙋‍♂️

glad she's ok! cats are good at hiding pain so keep a close ...

2025-05-07T09:37:05Z

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glad she's ok! cats are good at hiding pain so keep a close eye on her for any unusual behaviour

🍪🍪🍪 for cookie

⛏️⛏️⛏️ #nevent1q…shey

2025-03-22T01:23:15Z

⛏️⛏️⛏️

quoting
nevent1q…shey
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• Entry Rules: •
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What you will receive :
• Bitaxe.
• Solo Satoshi stand.
• Power supply.
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but is it compliant?

2025-03-22T01:22:45Z

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but is it compliant?

long live nostr #nevent1q…2pw3

2025-03-02T22:36:05Z

long live nostr

quoting
nevent1q…2pw3
nostr is dead

“god candle soon come” oh fuck https://m.primal.net/PRco.jpg

2025-03-02T22:23:51Z

“god candle soon come”

oh fuck

severance season 2 episode 7 was peak ...

2025-02-28T06:58:25Z

severance season 2 episode 7 was peak

queso dip, bean dip, spinach artichoke dip 👌 nothing like a ...

2025-02-28T06:20:21Z

queso dip, bean dip, spinach artichoke dip 👌

nothing like a big bowl of bitcoin dip though. yum yum 😋

and if you don’t know, now you knowwwww biggie’s flow was ...

2025-02-22T08:23:28Z

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and if you don’t know, now you knowwwww

biggie’s flow was absolute butter 🐐🐐🐐

to the moon 🚀 https://m.primal.net/OSQf.jpg

2025-02-06T00:33:40Z

to the moon 🚀

epic zap ⚡️ #note1wwm…7jgn

2025-02-02T06:33:06Z

epic zap ⚡️

quoting
note1wwm…7jgn
The mempools are clear.

when no one is playing with their bitcoins 🥲 #note197y…tw69

2025-01-29T07:34:21Z

when no one is playing with their bitcoins 🥲

quoting
note197y…tw69
GM 👀👀👀⚡🧡

🤔 🤔 🤔 https://m.primal.net/Nwqr.png

2025-01-23T20:37:14Z

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🤔 🤔 🤔

> the first feedback I got was: "how do we ban people? it ...

2025-01-23T07:58:41Z

> the first feedback I got was: "how do we ban people? it looks like it would be very hard to ban", so I said that was the idea and the conversation ended

legend

quoting
nevent1q…xrat
If I remember correctly they contacted me and I had a call with a guy from Twitter where he told me Bluesky's goals were to build a protocol for which Twitter could become a client in the future, to which I said Nostr was a perfect match, then he asked me if I would consider becoming the lead Bluesky person they would pick for leading the effort, and I said ok but asked if it would be acceptable if I just used Nostr as it was as "the Bluesky" without considering the other proposals and he didn't know what to say.

Then he put me in a secret group chat with some other people including SSB people, Mastodon people, the GUN guy and people from a bunch of useless IPFS projects. Supposedly the group was gathered to work together in creating this Bluesky protocol, but I read the entire conversation and it was 100% people just shilling their own projects, so I talked a little about Nostr and the first feedback I got was: "how do we ban people? it looks like it would be very hard to ban", so I said that was the idea and the conversation ended. Maybe Jay Graber was in this chat, but I don't remember reading any messages from her.

Some time after that supposedly this group produced a "report" containing all decentralized protocols in existence and a comparison between them, but it didn't include Nostr. I think the group didn't produce anything and this was likely a solo effort from Jay. The group continued its useless, sparse conversation and Bluesky the company was created through some other means of communication.

feel dat

2025-01-23T04:22:21Z

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feel dat

these clowns are so incredibly out of touch. makes me fucking ...

2025-01-23T04:09:12Z

these clowns are so incredibly out of touch. makes me fucking sick 🤮🤮🤮

quoting
note13u3…z09u
Spain's PM Pedro Sánchez:

"I propose putting an end to anonymity on social media."

“That is why I believe we must push forward the principle of psuedonimity as the functioning element of social media and force all these platforms to link every user account to an European digital identity wallet.”

these clowns are so incredibly out of touch. makes me fucking ...

2025-01-23T04:08:59Z

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these clowns are so incredibly out of touch. makes me fucking sick 🤮🤮🤮

this had me in tears 😂😂😂 @nprofile…ul37 ...

2025-01-23T02:00:35Z

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this had me in tears 😂😂😂 awayslice (nprofile…ul37)

freedom at last. bursting through the concrete 🌱

2025-01-22T05:11:07Z

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freedom at last. bursting through the concrete 🌱

big smile. new era 🌱 🌱 🌱 #note100m…h83u

2025-01-22T05:07:18Z

big smile. new era 🌱 🌱 🌱

quoting
note100m…h83u
FREEDOM!!!!

someone get this man on nostr

2025-01-22T00:06:05Z

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someone get this man on nostr

FREED ROSS!! #note1gc3…sjcd

2025-01-22T00:04:31Z

FREED ROSS!!

quoting
note1gc3…sjcd
ROSS IS FREE

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2025-01-22T00:02:24Z

FREED ROSS!!

@nprofile…fgca 🤝 being shirtless

2025-01-21T17:58:39Z

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NVK (nprofile…fgca) 🤝 being shirtless

#FreeRossDayTwo

2025-01-21T17:54:37Z

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#FreeRossDayTwo

this is the kind of shit that makes me proud to be ...

2025-01-21T07:53:03Z

this is the kind of shit that makes me proud to be 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

🐂 🐂 🐂 = 🐐 🐐 🐐

quoting
naddr1qv…0tms

Doing Bitcoin the right way is hard.

If Bull Bitcoin wanted to take the easy path, we would have done what all the other exchanges are doing and would simply have offered a custodial wallet to our users. But our mission is not to sell numbers on a screen, fake paper bitcoin and IOUs. Our mission is to create sovereign individuals. If our clients don’t take full control over their wealth, we have failed them.

If we wanted to take the easy path, we would have offered shitcoin trading, NFTs, ICOs, yield and all sorts of nonsense. No doubt, we would today be far more wealthy.

But we would have failed in our mission to establish a universal Bitcoin standard and fixed the problems created by easy money. We would have compromised on our values and sold products that we don’t believe in and we don’t personally use.

If we wanted to take the easy path, we wouldn't have spent years building open-source software that lets any business run their own self-hosted Bitcoin wallet API infrastructure connected directly to their own Bitcoin, Lightning and Liquid network nodes. We would have just done a deal with Coinbase or another third party to take care of the Bitcoin engineering on our behalf.

But we would have failed in our mission to help keep the Bitcoin network decentralized and resilient to institutional failures. We would have lost our direct and precious connection to the Bitcoin network.

The engineering, operational and logistical challenges involved in maintaining a noncustodial Bitcoin service like Bull Bitcoin, in an environment where Bitcoin network fees are increasingly high, while also maintaining an accessible user experience with minimal compromises on the cypherpunk principles of Bitcoin… are impossibly hard to fathom for the vast majority of Bitcoiners.

Despite consistently taking the most difficult path at every turn, Bull Bitcoin has nonetheless been crushing it for the past 10 years thanks to our Bitcoiner ethos and mindset, sticking to our core values and creating products with a singular focus: engineering sovereignty.

All of this we accomplished without any outside funding. Every sat invested in Bull Bitcoin was acquired by offering a service valued by our customers. Every network fee we pay, every investment in R&D comes straight out of our pockets. If our bitcoin-only noncustodial model fails and we become unprofitable, there will be no bailout.

As a low-time preference business, taking the hard path today means we will have a unique competitive advantage in the future. Nobody uses Bitcoin more than a non-custodial exchange. Every trade and every revenue generating activity is derived directly from a Bitcoin payment. We are keenly aware of every possible problem that Bitcoin users may be facing, because we are ourselves are a power user. We know what kinds of problems the users will face, what solutions we need to build and how we must adapt. We always skate where the puck is going.

But there is another, more noble purpose to choosing the hard path.

I'm also heavily involved in a community circular economy project in Costa Rica called Bitcoin Jungle. We spend countless hours to educate locals, set merchants up with Bitcoin point of sales, and build the infrastructure necessary for Bitcoin to thrive as a medium of exchange in even the most rural areas. All of this we do for free, and in fact it we pay for it out of pocket! I discovered recently that a few people were skeptical of our efforts. I met one of them and he asked us “but why are you doing this, if you don't make any money from it”.

We do it because we love Bitcoin. We believe in the ideology of Bitcoin, its underlying cypherpunk and free market principles. We do it because we as sovereign individuals cannot live in isolation and we all benefit from the success of our communities. We do it because we want our kids to grow up in a world that is free from the evils of Fiat currency. May our children never suffer the corruption of participating in a socialist economic system that steals their time and their wealth by the simple fact of interacting with fiat currency. We do it because doing it is a moral imperative. In a world of systematic injustice, doing nothing is to be complicit. You cannot live a virtuous life with the knowledge that you had the capacity to act heroically but chose to capitulate.

Bitcoin is at the center of a spiritual war between forces of corruption and forces of liberation. There is a higher power that calls us to become the resistance. Bitcoin is hope. Bitcoin is salvation. If Bitcoin fails, everyone on earth is truly and utterly fucked.

We are on the cusp of a fundamental civilizational change. The global debt-fueled fiat ponzi is imploding right before our eyes. What comes next is up to us to determine. We are the right place and the right time. We have a unique window of opportunity that may not come again within our lifetimes and that of our children.

The choices we make today will shape what the world looks hundreds of years from now. Whether our descendants live in totalitarian dystopias or will be ushering in a new era of prosperity and freedom depends on our willingness to choose the hard path today.

And if you think the hard part is over and that Bitcoin has already won, think again. During our decade of operational experience, there were few serious attacks on the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin had relatively low levels of adoption and apart from a few periods of intense fee spikes and the fork wars of 2017, it was smooth sailing. Bitcoin was mostly flying under the radar, left to develop organically in the hands of its cypherpunk caretakers.

This era of complacency is over. From now on, everything is about to get much, much harder. This is what we live for! Nothing easy is worth pursuing.

Bull Bitcoin hasn't given up on Bitcoin's mission to free humanity from the shackles of fiat slavery and centralized systems, we are reinvigorated by the challenges that Bitcoin is facing and that will continue to intensify.

We will not give up on Bitcoin's use case as a medium of exchange and we will continue to build tools that make it easy for anyone to opt out of the traditional banking system to conduct peer-to-peer transactions securely, as was originally intended by Satoshi when launched the Bitcoin project.

This new epoch, Bull Bitcoin is leveling up to an entire new standard for consumer-facing Bitcoin apps, higher than anyone has ever seen. We have been thinking about how to make our unique noncustodial model work sustainably long-term for years. This is the hill that we choose to die on.

But as we entered into a new Bitcoin epoch, I've witnessed many in the Bitcoin community become cynical, fatalistic and even depressed. It’s hard to blame them.

Privacy-preserving tools are being shut down. The Lightning Network is suffering scalability issues. The Bitcoin blockchain is being spammed by degenerate NFT gamblers, driving up transaction fees for everyone else. Bankers and Wall Street insiders are accumulating Bitcoin fortunes and promoting exchange traded funds as an alternative to self-custody. Bitcoin mining is being heavily centralized among a small group of American-based public companies. It sometimes feels like Bitcoin is under attack by various nefarious interests that want to control it and corrupt it.

Even from within our own community we are suffering from prophets of doom spewing fear, uncertainty and doubt. Many sneer that Lightning is broken, that Bitcoin has been co-opted by Wall Street. Some say we should give up and switch to altcoins. Some pundits blame “lasereyed maxis” for blocking protocol changes and claim that being conservative about modifying the rules of Bitcoin means “ossification” and that's the reason why Bitcoin has high fees. Others are pushing the idea that Bitcoin was never meant for payments anyway and that being a store of value was always the main goal of Bitcoin. Who cares about the poor? The plebs can always keep their funds on an exchange.

At Bull Bitcoin, we see it very differently. We have a realistic and optimistic approach towards building a bright future for Bitcoin. I have never been so bullish on the future Bitcoin as I am today.

Make no mistake: the core principles of Bitcoin self-custody, censorship-resistance and privacy are under attack. But the Bitcoin community possesses a unique advantage that will ultimately allow us to prevail: not only do we have skin in the game, we have soul in the game.

Our tribe of a few thousand cypherpunk Bitcoin maximalist fanatics stand against an empire of fiat clones, millions of faceless cogs in a soulless machine. I like our odds.

While I agree that we should never take Bitcoin’s success for granted, the bleak picture that some want to paint regarding the state of Bitcoin is detached from reality.

We've already achieved incredible technological miracles. The fact that it is possible for a user to run a Lightning network node on a mobile device and make fully trustless payments is a monumental achievement. Despite what they claim I can guarantee that no other shitcoin or fiat payment system has anywhere near the level of sophistication of Bitcoin. It is an incredibly bullish sign for the Bitcoin ecosystem that we have achieved a level where users can remain fully sovereign if they have the means.

Scaling Bitcoin so that it can enable hundreds of millions of people to become sovereign individuals is the most pressing challenge of our times. Our community must accept inevitable realities: not everybody will be able to afford on-chain transactions. The success of Bitcoin means that one day, during our lifetimes, a single Bitcoin translation will cost hundreds of dollars.

Upgrading the Bitcoin protocol may allow us to create tools that enable a more secure, censorship-resistant and private payment mechanism, but no soft fork can fix the fundamental tradeoffs of the Bitcoin protocol.

But this doesn't mean that we should either give up on Bitcoin’s value proposition as a medium of exchange, or that we must fork bitcoin according to the whims of whoever is trending on Twitter, nor should we capitulate to traditional exchanges acting as banks for the vast majority of users.

To fix the inconvenient and expensive user experience that most people are suffering in times of high fees while making the minimum amount of compromises, you need vision and execution.

There is an army of shadowy super coders that, like us, have dedicated their lives to ensure that Bitcoin becomes the universal medium of exchange, store of value and medium of account. We come from different walks of life and we have different strategies. Some of us work on self-sovereign consumer applications. Other focus of privacy protocols, mining decentralization, second later payment networks, e-cash protocols, and finally, as a last resort, some are working to add changes to the Bitcoin protocol which can enable tools that we currently cannot build.

At Bull Bitcoin, our vision of the future Bitcoin experience is crystal clear. It is a vision of success and integrity, where the path of least resistance for the user is also the path of least compromise.

We, the Bitcoin builders, will make it real.

"we're gonna grift so much, you may even get tired of the ...

2025-01-21T07:20:30Z

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"we're gonna grift so much, you may even get tired of the grifting! and you'll say, 'please, please, it's too much grifting, we can't take it anymore. mr. president, it's too much!' and i'll say, 'no, it isn't. we have to keep grifting, we have to grift more!' we're gonna grift more. we're gonna grift so much" - trump, probably

"we're gonna grift so much, you may even get tired of the ...

2025-01-21T07:20:23Z

"we're gonna grift so much, you may even get tired of the grifting! and you'll say, 'please, please, it's too much grifting, we can't take it anymore. mr. president, it's too much!' and i'll say, 'no, it isn't. we have to keep grifting, we have to grift more!' we're gonna grift more. we're gonna grift so much" - trump, probably

quoting
nevent1q…z6wy
This underperformed even my own very low expectations

Just remember: this is who we are dealing with

still #note1q6a…w27h

2025-01-21T06:56:40Z

still

quoting
note1q6a…w27h
Free Ross Day One

super classic kenny and cole smoked that beat

2025-01-21T06:54:15Z

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super classic

kenny and cole smoked that beat

#FreeRoss 🔀 #RossFree wonder is today the day?

2025-01-20T09:27:05Z

#FreeRoss 🔀 #RossFree

wonder is today the day?

welcome welcome!! 🫂

2025-01-20T09:21:42Z

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welcome welcome!! 🫂

episode 9 of Silo was fucking bonkers ...

2025-01-11T02:21:48Z

episode 9 of Silo was fucking bonkers

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2025-01-01T08:33:45Z

happy new year you psychopaths!! 🥳🥳🥳

⚡⚡⚡ #note1k5q…uund

2024-09-25T22:10:12Z

⚡⚡⚡

quoting
note1k5q…uund
BOLT 12 is merged into the spec

To applause at the Lightning Spec Summit dinner! ❤️

https://m.primal.net/KrJe.png

2024-09-15T22:54:55Z

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWQMg56ZVZY

2024-07-14T01:54:01Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWQMg56ZVZY

when i look into your light, i see the truth ...

2024-07-03T16:58:50Z

when i look into your light, i see the truth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OSEzXeH80U

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2024-07-01T22:35:34Z

happy canada day!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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2024-04-13T23:08:31Z

i'ma need #bitcoin to drop and gimme 50

oh my 👀

2024-04-09T14:30:11Z

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oh my 👀

orly https://m.primal.net/Hqmj.png

2024-04-02T22:56:21Z

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orly

ok, i know i’m reacting to this but it’s good advice lol ...

2024-03-30T06:55:15Z

ok, i know i’m reacting to this but it’s good advice lol 🤷🏻

quoting
note1pva…lfqr
Some sage advice I’ve received recently which only seems to get more true over time:

“you don’t have to react to everything”.

yummy bass 😋

2024-03-30T06:45:39Z

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yummy bass 😋

would recommend checking out @npub1xke…d0en. you can set up ...

2024-03-25T07:05:06Z

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would recommend checking out River (npub1xke…d0en). you can set up no-fee DCA purchases, target % buy orders for dips, and auto-withdrawal once your stack reaches a certain amount

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2024-03-24T18:00:04Z

GM nostr :)

slow and steady 🐢 🪨 #note18t8…u268

2024-03-24T06:45:16Z

slow and steady 🐢 🪨

quoting
note18t8…u268
We're hoping for a release next Friday, but it's possible it slips to the week after.

It's taking so long because it's critical that we do it right, and in a way where we know the least about the user.

We took the Hermes project from Kody from Fedi and rewrote it to fit our stack better and to create a blinded authentication layer over it. This shields the LNURL AUTH identity layer from additional services that might leak metadata about the user. With it, we can offer username registration, paid support tickets, etc. without knowing anything about the user except that they paid for the service.

Probably over engineered for what the average user cares about, but it shouldn't expose any additional friction points. But we'll be able to offer our subscribers more benefits over time while preserving privacy.

The first rollout will be lightning addresses for paid subscribers to test it out. Afterwards, things like anonymous embedded support tickets, and eventually random lightning address names for free users.

nevent1q…jeyq

dang, very sorry to hear that. man got lost in the sauce

2024-03-24T06:41:32Z

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dang, very sorry to hear that. man got lost in the sauce

hmm 🤔 🤔 🤔

2024-03-13T10:07:12Z

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hmm 🤔 🤔 🤔

we're gonna fucking win #note1pkk…6c35

2024-03-04T16:55:58Z

we're gonna fucking win

quoting
note1pkk…6c35
Pump it Higher

higher 🤝 pump it up 🤝 techno

#Bitcoin #tunestr

https://youtu.be/_c9WOks2mvg

sounds like it was creg

2024-02-20T23:31:22Z

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sounds like it was creg

this book is now certified censorship-resistant stamp ...

2024-02-16T18:35:33Z

this book is now certified censorship-resistant *stamp*

nostr:note1jfku60jevk6vlpjdg9rz9d9wvaywx8f5cwntwugfpatahgyg9u8s9979hp

together, we are strong 💪 💪 💪 #note1ejd…m8hd

2024-02-15T02:09:44Z

together, we are strong 💪 💪 💪

quoting
note1ejd…m8hd
With our powers united no one can stop us

EVERYONE'S A SCAMMER ...

2024-02-08T05:51:19Z

EVERYONE'S A SCAMMER

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/everyones-a-scammer/

quoting
note1dy5…wu9k
GOOD MORNING NOSTR, FORTUNATELY BITCOIN DOES NOT RELY ON TRUST BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY BAD ACTORS IN OUR RANKS 🫡

🔥🔥🔥 #note1kwj…hehu

2024-02-08T05:45:03Z

🔥🔥🔥

quoting
note1kwj…hehu
Yesterday, I listed two smartphones for sale on Nostr via Amethyst's Shopstr integration. Today, those phones sold. No Facebook Marketplace. No eBay. Just beautiful decentralized shopping and decentralized payments. I'll ship them tomorrow. We are winning.

although most people now call it the blockchain, the chain of ...

2024-02-04T23:33:34Z

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although most people now call it the blockchain, the chain of blocks was originally referred to as the "timechain" by satoshi in a pre-release version of the bitcoin source code

thread with this and other tidbits from this early version:
https://twitter.com/francispouliot_/status/1106028072799744002

https://tftc.io/issue-441

👋

2024-01-15T10:40:42Z

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👋

🫧 #note1efa…pv4z

2024-01-06T04:39:27Z

🫧

quoting
note1efa…pv4z
🫧

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2024-01-03T07:30:00Z

my #nostr feed is now turtles 🐢

happy birthday #bitcoin!! big 15! 🥳🥳🥳 ...

2024-01-03T05:39:55Z

happy birthday #bitcoin!! big 15! 🥳🥳🥳

https://mempool.space/block/000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f

nips and freedom 👏👏👏 #note1r5y…2pzn

2023-12-21T14:24:15Z

nips and freedom 👏👏👏

quoting note1r5y…2pzn
More grants. More NIPs. More freedom.

https://opensats.org/blog/nostr-grants-december-2023

loool #note1clq…ev0j

2023-12-12T22:29:05Z

loool

quoting
note1clq…ev0j
With the recent spike in Liquid #bitcoin usage we managed to give you a rare glimpse inside Blockstream HQ with adam3us (npub1qg8…24kw)

top tier kek ...

2023-11-29T21:46:02Z

top tier kek
https://twitter.com/rodarmor/status/1729958232809218312

bars on bars on bars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrhDUwYbTkI ...

2023-11-17T16:23:12Z

bars on bars on bars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrhDUwYbTkI

#nostr #grownostr #tunestr #music #listentothis

when AI reaches the conclusion that we all have.. ...

2023-11-14T13:53:42Z

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when AI reaches the conclusion that we all have.. "there's no second best and it's going up forever, Laura"

i love #bitcoin and all that it offers but your stack will mean ...

2023-11-13T22:45:12Z

i love #bitcoin and all that it offers but your stack will mean nothing if you need to sell it early. stay humble, stay solvent, and stack sats

great quote from Lyn: “Bitch, I’ve gone about as all-in on this new distributed ledger as I can while still sustaining a reasonable level of lower volatility equity and other assets for tangible income and fallback support for eight people” 😂

quoting
note16tq…j62q
“Responsibly all-in.”

“I like the orange coin. A lot.”

My research and audience straddles the macro finance world and the bitcoin world. And so humorously, I get heat from both sides.

“Lyn, I love your macro work but you’re too obsessed with bitcoin; I wish you would focus less on that stuff.” -hedge fund reader.

Vs

“Lyn, since you’re a fellow bitcoiner, why do you only have a 5-10% allocation to bitcoin in your public model portfolios!? Shouldn’t you sell all your stocks and buy more?” -fellow pleb.

I talk to many institutions, as well as high net worth individuals, and medium net worth individuals like engineers and doctors. This is where individual situations come into play. I had been watching bitcoin for a while, publicly wrote about it near the top of the cycle in 2017 and (correctly) passed on it from that point, but then kept watching it during the bear market and then hardcore jumped into it during the March/April 2020 crash starting at $6,900/coin as a long-term bull, and haven’t wavered since.

For example, 2.5 years later as Bitcoin crashed amid the FTX fallout in November 2022 from 69k to sub-16k, I was at Pacific Bitcoin laughing about it. I was not uncertain.

In those initial months of 2020, I put every dollar of my liquid capital into bitcoin. I didn’t sell my existing stocks and trigger capital gains tax, didn’t withdraw from my IRA or 401(k), but otherwise most of my existing liquid cash and all of my incoming earned cash went into bitcoin. I threw like a quarter of my net worth into it. And it paid off. For me as a conservative investor, that was my version of “all-in”. I wasn’t fucking around. I never go all-in like that, but I did it for bitcoin.

I grew up poor, and then worked for 12 years in engineering and engineering management. There is no world where I would invest in such a way that there was even a 1% chance that I could be wrong and lose my entire net worth and the past 12 years of my work at that point. I would never be 100% invested unless I consider it to be risk-free, and I consider nothing to be risk-free, and so I diversify by default. I am conservative as a baseline, but opportunistic when appropriate. I put at most 5% into any one stock, but I threw 25% into bitcoin as an anomaly due to how bullish I was. My husband was like, “what are we doing?” and I was like, “trust me, here’s why”.

And then, there are eight family members and associates who, if I were to go broke, would have to radically diminish and change their lifestyles. Their housing support and their everyday income comes significantly from my earnings. It’s like running a small business. So, when I see people on social media be like, “wHy DoN’t YoU gO aLl iN?” I’m thinking like, “Bitch, I’ve gone about as all-in on this new distributed ledger as I can while still sustaining a reasonable level of lower volatility equity and other assets for tangible income and fallback support for eight people”. And then I realize the anon who wrote that is probably a single dude in his parents’ basement, and my response is unwarranted. Don’t let anons on social media affect you.

For example, our extended family ran into a liquidity issue and had to change households this year, and we got a good real estate deal but it was based on me having six figures in liquidity to just throw around at short notice, which meant having maintained adequate diversification for that possibility, which I was anticipating.

In my model portfolios, I began to recommend a 5% bitcoin allocation in early 2020, and then I took some chips off the table in 2021 near the highs after a 3x and 5x gain as Musk was pumping Dogecoin, to rebalance back down to that 5% target. Why? Because not everybody has put a thousand hours of research into it and can realistically put a quarter of their liquid net worth into it. My point was, “your portfolio has zero bitcoin, you should probably have at least 5% bitcoin, and better yet, you should buy bitcoin non-custodially at whatever size is appropriate for you. As it soars, rebalance. As it falls, buy back in.” That rebalancing worked well for my public portfolio. I warned of exuberance, leaned into fear, despite not trying to predict any short-term price action.

And during 2022, amid the bear market, I joined the formation of Ego Death Capital, a bitcoin-only VC firm, as a founding advisor. And more recently, I’m leaning more into that role, and some announcements regarding that are incoming in terms of my deeper involvement. In other words, while bitcoin price action was in a period of weakness, I was happily ready to lean in to it with my capital, my time, and my reputation, to fund bitcoin companies that were developing cool stuff. https://egodeath.capital/portfolio

And then there was my husband’s wisdom. He edits all of my research reports, among other work that he does. And he has better wisdom than me overall. One day in early 2023 amid the bear market out of the blue after hardly ever talking about bitcoin he was like, “How many bitcoins do we have?” I said the number X but also explained that I am buying more lately. He said, “Alright, good, let’s get to Y soon. I know you are super cautious, and I love that, but don’t mess around on this. Buy more. Push harder. I know you have extra pockets of liquidity above the baseline. Use them.” By Y, I mean he gave me an aggressive number that was a bit above what I would have otherwise done in that timeframe.

I was like, “Okay I’ll try. But I mean, we need certain liquidity.” And he said, “I’ve edited your research reports for years. I’ve never seen you more convicted on something. Don’t fuck around on this. Lean into it. We will figure out liquidity if need be. You said to trust you in early 2020 when you initially bought it. Trust me here in 2023 when I say to buy extra vs whatever you’re buying. I can read you better than you can read yourself, and the answer is to buy. You’re being too conservative.” I followed his advice, at like sub-$20k and sub-$25k.

And then later this year, within the past few months, we indeed balanced it very tightly; I had bought as many bitcoin for us as we could early in the year and I barely hit the target he set since I was being cautious, and then we ran into a surprise liquidity requirement (changing households in Egypt) and needed to throw capital at a new place as a down payment for our family for seven people, and I was like, “This is why I maintained so much liquidity, btw. We have it because I saw this type of thing coming!” And he was like, “But we have it, right?” I and I was like, “Yes, barely at such short notice!” And he was like, “So we have the exact amount then, fucking nailed it!” The yin-and-yang worked well.

The point is, I’m as all-in on bitcoin as I get with any asset. Which means to say, I am ready to survive its failure or repression in long bear markets without selling any, but I am also highly engaged and invested in its success. I never go all-in on anything, but I’ve never leaned into any asset as thoroughly as I have done on bitcoin since April 2020. It’s the maximum I lean into any asset while still maintaining financial prudence. When it falls 80%, it doesn’t affect my lifestyle or force me to sell. When it soars, I am cautious, and focus on how to best improve the success of the network.

Good evening. Let's accelerate.

so so good!!

2023-11-10T10:03:34Z

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so so good!!

loki is truly burdened with glorious purpose incredible season ...

2023-11-10T09:17:13Z

loki is truly burdened with glorious purpose

incredible season finale to #Loki

#nostr #grownostr #tv

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2023-10-01T00:56:39Z

the bitcoin mind virus ate my brain

inferring the #bitcoin price in USD using the UTXO set. this is ...

2023-09-21T16:46:52Z

inferring the #bitcoin price in USD using the UTXO set. this is the power of an open, publicly queryable base settlement layer. absolutely fascinating and amazing work!!

this seems foundational for actual DeFi built on bitcoin rails without third-party oracles

https://utxo.live/oracle/

and you can run it yourself: https://utxo.live/oracle/UTXOracle.py

read more here: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/utxoracle-model-could-bring-use-cases-to-bitcoin

an incredible watch! #bitcoin is growing and it's beautiful. ...

2023-09-20T08:38:52Z

an incredible watch! #bitcoin is growing and it's beautiful. great work joenakamoto (npub1lr2…dl6a)!

quoting
note1gpn…day4
Bitcoin empowers people in freedom stricken regimes.

Please share this video of Bitcoin in Cuba far and wide.

🧡

ODELL (npub1qny…95gx) jack (npub1sg6…f63m) LynAlden (npub1a2c…w83a) Gigi (npub1der…xzpc) Anita (npub1tjk…s9w3)

I will send any sats you Zap to this note to bitcoincuba@getalby.com ⚡️

But if you wanna zap me personally (thanks!), use joe@coincorner.io

Viva Cuba, Viva Bitcoin 🇨🇺 🧡

https://youtu.be/UPp0Xbk4bFo?si=kkP5X7gvWn9XVClF

"escape the arbitrary inflation risk of centrally managed ...

2023-09-15T12:07:40Z

"escape the arbitrary inflation risk of centrally managed currencies! #bitcoin's total circulation is limited to 21 million coins." - satoshi nakamoto

#studybitcoin

i've largely stopped using instagram but i think i'll ...

2023-09-07T16:04:33Z

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i've largely stopped using instagram but i think i'll start dumping photos on #nostr. thanks for the continual inspiration, LynAlden (npub1a2c…w83a)!

enjoy the wedding and time with family! :)

the user must feel pain before they can know pleasure - that UX ...

2023-09-07T15:47:00Z

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the user must feel pain before they can know pleasure - that UX designer probably

agree! there's https://nostrgram.co but it's a little ...

2023-09-07T15:41:56Z

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agree! there's https://nostrgram.co but it's a little clunky

used to love watching the news; no longer feel this way ...

2023-09-07T15:31:20Z

used to love watching the news; no longer feel this way

quoting
note1ufx…xsje
Hard not to feel disappointed in the media these days. Harder still as you age, having read certain bylines for years; having seen them develop; having witnessed them decline.

my top 5 is 1. bitcoin 2. bitcoin 3. bitcoin 4. bitcoin 5. ...

2023-09-05T15:32:03Z

my top 5 is
1. bitcoin
2. bitcoin
3. bitcoin
4. bitcoin
5. bitcoin

honourary mention: bitcoin

quoting
note1q9f…kv8a

don't be afraid to question things. seek out knowledge. free ...

2023-09-04T16:33:24Z

don't be afraid to question things.

seek out knowledge.

free yourself and others.

quoting
note1rv8…72th
We are told we need mass surveillance to protect civil rights.

We are told we need censorship to ensure free speech.

We are told we need bank bailouts to rescue the free market.

We are told we need compliance to protect science.

We are told we need rigged elections to save democracy.

We are told we need forever war to secure peace.

me on the way to smash buy dat sweet sweet discounted #bitcoin ...

2023-09-04T16:10:59Z

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me on the way to smash buy dat sweet sweet discounted #bitcoin

you absolutely right ...

2023-09-04T16:01:36Z

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you absolutely right

haven't posted on nostr much lately. i must do better ...

2023-09-04T15:46:35Z

haven't posted on nostr much lately. i must do better

#bitcoin #nostr #grownostr #plebchain #zap #zapathon

not books but these posts from #bitcoin core devs gave me a bunch ...

2023-09-04T15:39:42Z

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not books but these posts from #bitcoin core devs gave me a bunch to noodle on:

1. Zeitgeist (Anthony Towns)
https://www.erisian.com.au/wordpress/2023/02/26/zeitgeist

2. Putting the B in BTC (Anthony Towns)
https://www.erisian.com.au/wordpress/2023/06/21/putting-the-b-in-btc

3. Thoughts on Scaling and Consensus Changes (James O'Beirne)
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/thoughts-on-scaling-and-consensus-changes-2023/32/1

yum 😋 #nostr #grownostr #plebchain #foodstr #lunch ...

2023-08-22T19:08:46Z

yum 😋

#nostr #grownostr #plebchain #foodstr #lunch

one of dem days.. #bitcoin #studybitcoin #nostr #grownostr ...

2023-08-18T05:08:22Z

one of dem days..

#bitcoin #studybitcoin #nostr #grownostr

so cute!! 😻

2023-08-06T06:58:32Z

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so cute!! 😻

#note1mtf…5dmr https://m.primal.net/HHiY.mp4

2023-08-05T18:06:44Z

quoting note1mtf…5dmr
Mighty Bitcoiners #zapathon

up up and away to outer space 🚀

2023-08-05T18:04:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…h98t
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up up and away to outer space 🚀

so sorry to hear that 😢 15 years filled with beautiful ...

2023-08-04T18:15:50Z

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so sorry to hear that 😢 15 years filled with beautiful memories, i'm sure. gonna give some hugs and smoochies to my cats now. sending love your way 🫂🧡

#nostr is something special. very powerful #note19wr…tqma

2023-08-04T00:04:42Z

#nostr is something special. very powerful

quoting
note19wr…tqma
the more I think about nostr the more excited I get

feel dat

2023-08-04T00:03:57Z

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feel dat

#note1fa9…hgqw https://m.primal.net/HHiY.mp4 #bitcoin #nostr ...

2023-08-04T00:01:37Z

quoting note1fa9…hgqw
Supreme Sovereign Technology

#bitcoin #nostr #plebchain #zapathon

#bitcoin #nostr #grownostr #plebchain

hell to the nah. slap on of these on the orb ...

2023-08-03T16:25:12Z

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hell to the nah. slap on of these on the orb

fiat mining ⛏️ (sad sigh) stacking 🌽 (happy sigh)

2023-08-03T16:22:02Z

fiat mining ⛏️ (sad sigh)

stacking 🌽 (happy sigh)

https://m.primal.net/HHZS.gif

2023-08-02T07:25:44Z

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incredible. 👋 and pv to legends. #nostr is beautiful thanks ...

2023-08-02T06:48:51Z

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incredible. 👋 and pv to legends. #nostr is beautiful

thanks nothenry (npub1xv6…xea6) for stemstr (npub1ste…mul5) 🙏💜🧡

wow, @npub14yp…nr2w on #nostr. definitely need you on ...

2023-08-02T04:17:22Z

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wow, cordae (npub14yp…nr2w) on #nostr. definitely need you on stemstr (npub1ste…mul5). you fire breh 🔥

will post some beats on stemstr. congrats on the launch rock (npub1yau…7h9m)!!

feel the buzz ⚡️🐝 ⚡️ #note1gs7…l4xh

2023-07-31T03:47:33Z

feel the buzz ⚡️🐝 ⚡️

quoting
note1gs7…l4xh
How slick is the primal (npub12vk…pugg) zap button?! Checkout this video.

Here’s the best part of Nostr: I couldn’t quickly post this video on Primal yet, so I went to damus (npub18m7…q955) and made the post. Together we are stronger... “Open networks always win!” - jack mallers (npub1cn4…3vle)

inflation: a great evil among us #note1the…9eqc

2023-07-31T03:45:58Z

inflation: a great evil among us

quoting
note1the…9eqc
When money inflates in supply, employers have the benefit of the status quo, and wage earners have the burden of work to negotiate higher nominal wages to keep up.

The effect is subtle in developing countries, a few percentage points per year, but it's always there behind the scenes. People often have to switch jobs to get proper higher wages, and avoid the anchoring bias from their prior employer. This is all because of dilutive fiat money.

The problem becomes more obvious in developing countries.

For example, the IMF tells Egypt to cut its currency in half relative to the dollar, if it wants some loan relief. It does. Now, every Egyptian wage earner has to try to negotiate a raise to regain some portion of their prior wages in terms of global purchasing power. Virtually all of them will not be able to. And then seven years later they do it again.

But when money deflates in supply, and the unit of account therefore appreciates, wage earners gain the benefit of the status quo in negotiations. If their salaries merely remain the same as averages prices go down, they have gained a raise (which makes sense, with greater experience).

The burden of work shifts to the employer, who has to argue that wages should be cut in line with prices.

I think the magnitude of this effect is poorly understood. If it were more understood, I think a subset of labor-oriented political proponents would appreciate hard money a bit more.

Nostr notes by colourorange

then i dip, dip, dip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQhD6izHFgg

slowly we unfurl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOa1a8hYP8

ecash enjoyoor 🙋‍♂️

glad she's ok! cats are good at hiding pain so keep a close ...

⛏️⛏️⛏️ #nevent1q…shey

but is it compliant?

long live nostr #nevent1q…2pw3

“god candle soon come” oh fuck https://m.primal.net/PRco.jpg

severance season 2 episode 7 was peak ...

queso dip, bean dip, spinach artichoke dip 👌 nothing like a ...

and if you don’t know, now you knowwwww biggie’s flow was ...

to the moon 🚀 https://m.primal.net/OSQf.jpg

epic zap ⚡️ #note1wwm…7jgn

when no one is playing with their bitcoins 🥲 #note197y…tw69

🤔 🤔 🤔 https://m.primal.net/Nwqr.png

> the first feedback I got was: "how do we ban people? it ...

feel dat

these clowns are so incredibly out of touch. makes me fucking ...

these clowns are so incredibly out of touch. makes me fucking ...

this had me in tears 😂😂😂 @nprofile…ul37 ...

freedom at last. bursting through the concrete 🌱

big smile. new era 🌱 🌱 🌱 #note100m…h83u

someone get this man on nostr

FREED ROSS!! #note1gc3…sjcd

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@nprofile…fgca 🤝 being shirtless

#FreeRossDayTwo

this is the kind of shit that makes me proud to be ...

"we're gonna grift so much, you may even get tired of the ...

"we're gonna grift so much, you may even get tired of the ...

still #note1q6a…w27h

super classic kenny and cole smoked that beat

#FreeRoss 🔀 #RossFree wonder is today the day?

welcome welcome!! 🫂

episode 9 of Silo was fucking bonkers ...

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⚡⚡⚡ #note1k5q…uund

https://m.primal.net/KrJe.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWQMg56ZVZY

when i look into your light, i see the truth ...

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oh my 👀

orly https://m.primal.net/Hqmj.png

ok, i know i’m reacting to this but it’s good advice lol ...

yummy bass 😋

would recommend checking out @npub1xke…d0en. you can set up ...

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slow and steady 🐢 🪨 #note18t8…u268

dang, very sorry to hear that. man got lost in the sauce

hmm 🤔 🤔 🤔

we're gonna fucking win #note1pkk…6c35

sounds like it was creg

this book is now certified censorship-resistant *stamp* ...

together, we are strong 💪 💪 💪 #note1ejd…m8hd

EVERYONE'S A SCAMMER ...

🔥🔥🔥 #note1kwj…hehu

although most people now call it the blockchain, the chain of ...

👋

🫧 #note1efa…pv4z

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happy birthday #bitcoin!! big 15! 🥳🥳🥳 ...

nips and freedom 👏👏👏 #note1r5y…2pzn

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bars on bars on bars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrhDUwYbTkI ...

when AI reaches the conclusion that we all have.. ...

i love #bitcoin and all that it offers but your stack will mean ...

so so good!!

loki is truly burdened with glorious purpose incredible season ...

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inferring the #bitcoin price in USD using the UTXO set. this is ...

an incredible watch! #bitcoin is growing and it's beautiful. ...

"escape the arbitrary inflation risk of centrally managed ...

i've largely stopped using instagram but i think i'll ...

the user must feel pain before they can know pleasure - that UX ...

agree! there's https://nostrgram.co but it's a little ...

used to love watching the news; no longer feel this way ...

my top 5 is 1. bitcoin 2. bitcoin 3. bitcoin 4. bitcoin 5. ...

this book is now certified censorship-resistant stamp ...