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Forcing amber would be annoying. I like the idea of an [export nsec to amber] button in settings somewhere. Normie's are becoming familiar with enabling 2fa and if presented in a similar manner, I think it would be a reasonable cognitive leap.

2024-10-24 17:29:03 UTC

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This is cool, thanks for sharing.

2024-10-23 22:22:13 UTC

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What happened to your Christmas spirit?🎄👻

2024-10-21 13:16:44 UTC

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Gm ☕

2024-10-18 14:36:44 UTC

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You can also run orbot and set it up as a tor service. Then set it as your DM inbox so you can self-host private DMs. Keeps the events off public relays.

2024-10-18 14:04:23 UTC

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Skimmed the runes specification, and it looks like they only have x blocks to mint new runes after a new 'coin' is established, until they reach the issuance cap.

2024-10-18 13:39:38 UTC

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GM ☕ clever coffee there

2024-10-18 00:27:40 UTC

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IRS allows First In, First Out; Last In, First Out; and Highest In, First Out. Make sure you apply the same method to every sale transaction. HIFO let's you count the sale price against the highest paid cost, which minimizes your gains for any given transaction, but may affect whether the sale is taxed at the long-term or short-term rate.
Make sure to DYOR. I'm no professional, just sharing my experience.

2024-10-17 23:13:59 UTC

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In the case of random, small buys, you could keep it all on one exchange so you have a record of price, date, and amount all in one place. There are privacy sacrifices with this, but it keeps the accounting relatively clean. You would still have to track the zaps, gifts, etc.
There are platforms like koinly.io (not an endorsement or recommendation, DYOR) which can pull data from your exchange account(s) and the blockchain. But in my experience they have some manual adjustments required. And it still doesn't account for lightning txns.

2024-10-17 21:03:21 UTC

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I don't know if there's a tool to keep track of all the small buys. If you buy from a KYC onramp they should at least keep a record of your transactions and make it available at tax time. For zaps, etc. you would have to check the value at the time received and keep a record. Again, I don't know of any wallet or service that does this. The decision to report or not is left to personal convictions and applicable tax code.
The USD price is not recorded on chain, but you could use the block timestamp to look up the historical price at that time. It wouldn't be exactly what you paid, though.

2024-10-16 22:36:45 UTC

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All debt is high time preference. But one can attempt to game the system by borrowing against their stack.
To buy a median priced ($412k) home, you would have to sell ~6.15 BTC to own it free and clear. You could DCA the $2000/mo payment to repurchase your corn over 206 months (17.17 years), assuming your average cost stays <= $67000.
Or you could get a 50% LTV loan against that 6.15 BTC @ $67000 ($206025) and pay $1262/month on the home loan. You would also be paying $1262/month on the bitcoin loan (assuming same rate and duration as mortgage, which is a big stretch). However, as bitcoin price goes up, you can reclaim some of your collateral corn from the loan or pay off the mortgage with the increased value.
If the price doubles, you can withdraw 3.075 BTC and sell it pay off both the mortgage and the bitcoin loan, or sell some of the corn each month to make payments on both loans, essentially a ₿CA(?) into your house. The remaining collateralized bitcoin would be "repurchased" from your lender at $67000/BTC + interest premium, which is still a 49% discount to the new price.
Personally, its probably not worth the trouble. Just take out a regular mortgage (or business loan) and cut some corn each month to make the payments. If you still get paid in fiat, you have flexibility to cash flow the payment if there's a significant drawdown.

2024-10-16 18:45:04 UTC

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Wasn't that why they picked Washington?

2024-10-16 18:40:37 UTC

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I don't understand what's going on here, but it sounds sick! Looking forward to the first release.

2024-10-15 21:58:16 UTC

Adjusting for base money inflation, a house is clearly not a store of value. https://image.nostr.build/2a237ffab48718acafad59e6a6bc65bd36fc33d30ddab4c9dbca1f644dd209d5.jpg

2024-10-15 20:42:20 UTC

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This looks great!
#nevent1q…4v2m

2024-10-15 00:19:45 UTC

The WordPress drama and concerns over private equity vs. #FOSS got me thinking and I'd like to #asknostr :
Would it be possible for someone to release a super-polished client (let's call it twittstr) that protected every note with DRM (on top of protocol signatures and encryption) so that users could only read the note if they pay 12000sats/month for access to protected notes?
12000 sats would also give them a dedicated relay, media server, caching service, nip-05, and lightning address. Solve a few more WoT and discovery problems, and it lowers the bar a great deal for non-technical users.
Obviously nostriches could simply ignore the walled garden. But what if the client (and it's VCs) were able to on-board a significant portion of current social media users?

2024-10-14 00:41:09 UTC

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Job board and local feeds would be excellent complimentary features.

2024-10-13 00:56:03 UTC

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I had to call them when I closed mine. I don't recall the reason, but that made me dislike them even more.

2024-10-12 02:10:46 UTC

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GE, always bullish here

2024-10-07 13:39:12 UTC

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GM ☕ and thank you.

2024-10-02 12:54:09 UTC

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I'm of the opinion that all the "old guys" who actually knew (understood) how the things worked were retired by the pandemic and then when people came back, there was no one to make sure everything operated properly or pass on the knowledge.

2024-09-28 00:57:55 UTC

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This is how the USPS pays for its fancy new fleet of EV surveillance machines.

2024-09-27 22:40:27 UTC

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Sacrifice yourself to save Gaia, the helpless earth-god.

2024-09-27 14:14:52 UTC

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Looks great based on cursory exploration. Wen bunker support?

2024-09-26 21:10:00 UTC

The Fed steals your productivity. https://image.nostr.build/1883bdd668855719c58f1c955758ef15b67b543e3b6cd0cf5c34f34072639f87.jpg

2024-09-18 22:01:54 UTC

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You can take yours off the charger?!? 😆

2024-09-18 20:18:20 UTC

"This recalibration of our policy stance will help maintain the strength of the economy and the labor market, and enable further progress on inflation," -Powell
All I see is, "enabl[ing] ... inflation."

2024-09-14 18:01:01 UTC

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Everyone's a Theologian by R.C. Sproul.
Very high-level overview of Christian Theology. Its a relatively light read on a heavy subject.
Second is The Great Taking by David Rogers Webb. How the Uniform Commercial Code allows secured creditors to claim custodied assets before any retail claims in the event of the custodian's failure.

2024-09-13 23:24:07 UTC

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Is that a pyrocatstic flow? 🌋

2024-09-13 20:01:58 UTC

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*Remembering the iPod docks*

2024-09-12 23:47:16 UTC

Looking for whiskey recommendations. ~$60 budget
#asknostr

2024-09-10 14:04:32 UTC

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GM ODELL ☕

2024-09-10 13:52:39 UTC

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GM Derek! ☕

2024-09-10 01:54:01 UTC

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4, or 1 if boot time is impacted significantly

2024-09-10 01:47:27 UTC

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Maybe your sign to take a technology break 😂

2024-09-09 21:59:16 UTC

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They tell you its liberal as in freedom (li erty) for the governed, but they mean freedom for the governors. Or the other meaning: giving or using a lot of government.

2024-09-09 20:14:31 UTC

Reading Parker Lewis' Gradually, then Suddenly. This is why I trust Bitcoin.
"...Bitcoin feeds on disorder, stressors, volatility, and randomness."
#Bitcoin is Antifragile

2024-09-09 13:23:51 UTC

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GM ☕🤙

2024-09-07 15:43:26 UTC

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GM ☕☀️

2024-09-07 15:39:12 UTC

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GM, its a beautiful day ☕

2024-09-07 02:30:51 UTC

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Enjoy the rest

2024-09-06 20:18:03 UTC

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Enjoy your break! 🤙

2024-09-06 15:14:47 UTC

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GM, that's beautiful ☕

2024-09-06 14:46:26 UTC

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2024-09-06 14:42:31 UTC

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GM ☕

2024-09-06 08:23:46 UTC

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GM Gigi

2024-09-05 08:00:55 UTC

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Here's to a rapid recovery

2024-09-05 07:53:41 UTC

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GM ☕

2024-09-05 07:49:24 UTC

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2024-09-05 07:42:49 UTC

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Good morning. Don't waste it

2024-09-04 09:00:42 UTC

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2024-09-03 22:43:00 UTC

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So true.

2024-08-27 19:13:29 UTC

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$99 for 546 sats? Just gotta hodl til $18,131,868 to make it worth it. 🙃

2024-08-26 20:15:25 UTC

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2. I was able to connect with Amber. Took a few attempts, but eventually it worked.

2024-08-17 14:42:57 UTC

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Good morning! ☕

2024-08-14 07:31:34 UTC

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I'm not certain I got the math right, but here's the chart. I indexed M2 at 01/01/2009 and BTC price starting at 10/12/2010 (5050 BTC sold for $5.02 or $0.00099/BTC). Besides the initial price, there are no prices for 11/2010 - 06/2014 because I'm lazy and couldn't find easily usable data. https://image.nostr.build/50f743e03891681756a8e506a4ed7491eeb1552678bb54a8201f3c5c630c215c.jpg
#nevent1q…l9cd

2024-08-12 22:21:44 UTC

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It'd be interesting to see the BTC price adjusted for M2 supply.

2024-08-09 22:00:42 UTC

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Also, other npubs reposting your note (finding value in it) would keep it alive in the network. Or am I mistaken about the repost mechanism?

2024-08-09 19:54:46 UTC

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What about pay-per-post with free replies? This would ideally cover costs without creating a barrier to discussion. Though it could incentivise bad reply behavior to circumvent the payment. It could also proxy zaps for reposts and quotes, in regard to surfacing "valuable" notes.

2024-08-09 02:02:41 UTC

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It would be nice to have an in-client resource for picking relays. Even opening a relay list in an in-app browser with a way to import relays to client settings. And better relay descriptors so users can make informed decisions about which relays to pick without having to know someone who can recommend relay(s).

2024-08-08 17:07:43 UTC

👀
https://usabtc.org

2024-08-07 19:25:28 UTC

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Correlation is not causation. I don't have data, but for sake of argument, you could say we experienced all the growth and progress despite fiat money. Imagine how much more advanced western civilization could be if we maintained a hard money standard for the last 100 years. If we hadn't experienced a century of capital misallocation incentiveised by fiat currency, what would global society look like today?
I might be wrong, but it bears considering.

2024-08-01 15:48:12 UTC

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GM ☕ onward

2024-07-31 03:38:19 UTC

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Higher grade coffee is uniform. All the beans are in good condition and the same size.

2024-07-29 22:47:51 UTC

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Nothing wrong with a humor column 😄

2024-07-25 21:38:36 UTC

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The winner _would_ be worthy of the title: Olympian. 💪⚡

2024-07-23 19:21:46 UTC

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They want to know how the sheep will spend their programmable money so the allocations will be aligned with the majority's expectations. And you're not allowed to spend money in categories that don't go right back to them.

2024-07-22 22:12:37 UTC

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Would it be possible (eventually) to use this to keep nutsack.me nuts on Citrine?

2024-07-22 21:59:30 UTC

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👀
#nevent1q…gs5t

2024-07-20 01:21:34 UTC

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99.989+% uptime. With no drops in sight.

2024-07-19 20:04:51 UTC

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2024-07-19 20:03:13 UTC

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Some say nutzaps will add more friction to adoption... Feature or bug?

2024-07-19 08:13:50 UTC

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OLED black for sure

2024-07-12 02:49:55 UTC

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I see it on Amethyst. Makes me zap to vote.

2024-07-11 22:59:51 UTC

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Freedom to engage (or not).

2024-07-11 21:23:26 UTC

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They'll have to wait for the quantum version

2024-07-10 20:17:18 UTC

@nprofile…pyug Is it possible to implement a local cache of npub and last-known display name for follows so I don't have to wait for Amethyst to resolve npubs on crappy internet? #asknostr

2024-07-08 20:22:46 UTC

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Yet another reason to avoid FEDex. They are already the least reliabe carrier in my area.

2024-07-05 10:28:45 UTC

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Tried a few. Absolute supply in profit crashed and so did UTXO count. Test was by no means exhaustive. Reloading the page fixed it. I'm using Brave.

2024-06-22 14:16:23 UTC

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GM. wisdom. ☕

2024-06-21 20:12:51 UTC

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Leave your ring sigs on monero 😅

2024-06-19 14:37:31 UTC

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GM ☕

2024-06-18 04:27:58 UTC

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Stacking S(h)ats

2024-06-14 15:43:26 UTC

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2024-06-04 01:57:13 UTC

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I don't know anything, but from what I have observed, beta/test releases are 0.x.x while production releases start at 1.x.x

2024-05-30 09:25:55 UTC

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Why not just go with P2P?

2024-05-24 22:22:49 UTC

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Made me think of warrant canary.

2024-05-24 01:35:02 UTC

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Blockstream, I assume? Don't the satellites just broadcast blocks? We need a parallel internet next.

2024-05-24 00:59:34 UTC

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It'll just be the Coinbase® Network. Then Blackrock can tokenize assets and we'll have ETH-TFs. Shitcoin Inception.

2024-05-24 00:28:51 UTC

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Too low for Bitcoin p2p connections? Yes. But I was suggesting sending a Tx over a mesh with a flag (e.g. btc:'tx hex'). When a mesh node receives the flagged message, it could check to see if it has an internet connection (LTE on paired device) and if so, use this to broadcast the tx to the Bitcoin network. Use case might be too spefic and limited to warrant development though.

2024-05-22 22:21:01 UTC

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I believe it is because most mobile wallets connect to someone else's public (centralized) node to broadcast transactions. That node can therefore see all your transactions.
It is not as useful if you run your own node and your mobile wallet connects back to it, but more useful as a default option for mobile wallets rather than connecting to a public node to broadcast.
It could probably also be used for projects like #meshtastic to broadcast transactions sent on the mesh to the Bitcoin network via any reachable mesh devices with an internet connection.

2024-05-02 17:24:16 UTC

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GM ☕ agree

2024-04-30 20:08:14 UTC

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GM ☕

2024-04-28 15:11:16 UTC

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Reorg would be epic.

2024-04-28 01:32:09 UTC

As much as I hate bots, this makes me smile.
https://image.nostr.build/c57903453c3be3c88087b4ad14ec453f47966fe9c34697a248d88a0b765d5ccc.jpg

2024-04-25 02:23:56 UTC

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Ouch.