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เมื่อวันที่ 16 กย.2024 มีผู้ติดตามคนหนึ่งส่งข้อความส่วนตัวมาหาผม บอกว่าชื่นชอบผลงานของผมมาก ต้องการจะขอซื้อผลงาน แต่ขอซื้อเป็น NFT นะ เสนอราคาซื้อขายต่อชิ้นที่สูงมาก หลังจากนั้นผมกับผู้ซื้อคนนี้พูดคุยกันในเมล์ครับ

นี่คือข้อสรุปสั่นๆจากการต่อรองซื้อขายครับ

(หลังจากนี้ผมขอเรียกผู้ซื้อว่า scammer นะครับ เพราะไพ่มันหงายมาแล้ว ว่าเขาคือมิจฉาชีพ)

• Scammer รายแรก เลือกผลงานที่จะซื้อ เสนอราคาซื้อที่สูงมาก แต่ต้องเป็นเวบไซต์ NFTmarket place ที่เขากำหนดเท่านั้น มันทำงานอยู่บน ERC20 ผมเข้าไปดูเวบไซต์ที่ว่านี้แล้วรู้สึกว่ามันดูแปลกๆครับ คนที่จะลงขายผลงานจะต้องใช้ email ในการสมัครบัญชีซะก่อน ถึงจะผูก wallet อย่างเช่น metamask ได้ เมื่อผูก wallet แล้วไม่สามารถเปลี่ยนได้ด้วย ตอนนั้นผมใช้ wallet ที่ไม่ได้ link กับ HW wallet ไว้ ทดลองสลับ wallet ไปๆมาๆ มันทำไม่ได้ แถมลอง log out แล้ว เลข wallet ก็ยังคาอยู่อันเดิม อันนี้มันดูแปลกๆแล้วหนึ่งอย่าง เวบนี้ค่า ETH ในการ mint 0.15 - 0.2 ETH … ตีเป็นเงินบาทนี่แพงบรรลัยอยู่นะครับ

• Scammer รายแรกพยายามชักจูงผม หว่านล้อมผมว่า แหม เดี๋ยวเขาก็มารับซื้องานผมน่า mint งานเสร็จ รีบบอกเขานะ เดี๋ยวเขารีบกดซื้อเลย พอขายได้กำไร ผมก็ได้ค่า gas คืนได้ แถมยังได้กำไรอีก ไม่มีอะไรต้องเสีนจริงมั้ย แต่มันเป้นความโชคดีครับ เพราะตอนนั้นผมไม่เหลือทุนสำรองที่จะมาซื้อ ETH ได้ ผมเลยต่อรองกับเขาตามนี้ครับ :

• ผมเสนอว่า เอางี้มั้ย ผมส่งผลงานของผมแบบ low resolution ให้ก่อน แลกกับให้เขาช่วยโอน ETH ที่เป็นค่า mint งานมาให้หน่อย พอผมได้ ETH แล้ว ผมจะ upscale งานของผม แล้วเมล์ไปให้ ใจแลกใจกันไปเลย ... เขาไม่เอา

• ผมเสนอให้ไปซื้อที่ร้านค้าออนไลน์ buymeacoffee ของผมมั้ย จ่ายเป็น USD ... เขาไม่เอา
• ผมเสนอให้ซื้อขายผ่าน PPV lightning invoice ที่ผมมีสิทธิ์เข้าถึง เพราะเป็น creator ของ Creatr ... เขาไม่เอา
• ผมยอกเขาว่างั้นก็รอนะ รอเงินเดือนออก เขาบอก ok

สัปดาห์ถัดมา มี scammer คนที่สองติดต่อผมเข้ามา ใช้วิธีการใกล้เคียงกัน แต่ใช้คนละเวบ แถมเสนอราคาซื้อที่สูงกว่าคนแรกมาก เวบที่สองนี้เลวร้ายค่าเวบแรกอีกครับ คือต้องใช้เมล์สมัครบัญชี ไม่สามารถผูก metamask ได้ พอสมัครเสร็จจะได้ wallet เปล่าๆมาหนึ่งอัน ผมต้องโอน ETH เข้าไปใน wallet นั้นก่อน เพื่อเอาไปเป็นค่า mint NFT 0.2 ETH

ผมบอก scammer รายที่สองว่า ต้องรอนะ เพราะตอนนี้กำลังติดต่อซื้อขายอยู่กับผู้ซื้อรายแรกอยู่ ผมกำลังรอเงินเพื่อมาซื้อ ETH เป็นต้นทุนดำเนินงานอยู่ คนคนนี้ขอให้ผมส่งเวบแรกไปให้เขาดูหน่อย หลังจากนั้นไม่นานเขาเตือนผมมาว่าเวบแรกมันคือ scam นะ ไม่สามารถถอนเงินออกมาได้ เขายังส่งรูป cap หน้าจอที่คุยกับผู้เสียหายจากเวบแรกมาให้ดูว่าเจอปัญหาถอนเงินไม่ได้ ไม่พอ เขายังบลัฟ opensea ด้วยว่าลูกค้าขายงานได้ แต่ถอนเงินไม่ได้

Opensea ถอนเงินไม่ได้ ตรงนี้แหละครับคือตัวกระตุกต่อมเอ๊ะของผมดังมาก เพราะ opensea อ่ะ ผู้ใช้ connect wallet เข้ากับ marketplace โดยตรง ซื้อขายกันเกิดขึ้น เงินวิ่งเข้าวิ่งออก wallet ของแต่ละคนโดยตรงเลย opensea เก็บแค่ค่า fee ในการใช้ platform ไม่เก็บเงินลูกค้าไว้ แถมปีนี้ค่า gas fee ก็ถูกกว่า bull run cycle 2020 มาก ตอนนี้ค่า gas fee ประมาณ 0.0001 ETH (แต่มันก็แพงกว่า BTC อยู่ดีอ่ะครับ)

ผมเลยเอาเรื่องนี้ไปปรึกษาพี่บิท แต่แอดมินมาคุยกับผมแทน ทางแอดมินแจ้งว่ายังไม่เคยมีเพื่อนๆมาปรึกษาเรื่องนี้ กรณีที่ผมทักมาถามนี่เป็นรายแรกเลย แต่แอดมินให้ความเห็นไปในทางเดียวกับสมมุติฐานของผมว่าน่าจะ scam ในเวลาเดียวกับผมเอาเรื่องนี้ไปถามในเพจ NFT community คนไทนด้วย ได้รับการ confirm ชัดเจนว่า scam และมีคนไม่น้อยโดนหลอก หลังจากที่ผมรู้ที่มาแล้ว ผมเลยเล่นสงครามปั่นประสาท scammer ทั้งสองคนนี้ครับ เพื่อดูว่าหลอกหลวงมิจฉาชีพจริงมั้ย

โดยวันที่ 30 กย. ผมเลยปั่นประสาน scammer ทั้งสองรายนี้ โดยการ mint ผลงานที่เขาเสนอซื้อนั่นแหละ ขึ้น opensea แล้วส่งข้อความไปบอกว่า

mint ให้แล้วนะ แต่เงินไม่พอจริงๆว่ะโทษที เลย mint ขึ้น opensea แทน พอดีบ้านจน ทำได้แค่นี้ไปถึงแค่ opensea รีบไปซื้อล่ะ มีคนจ้องจะคว้างานผมเยอะอยู่ ผมไม่คิด royalty fee ด้วยนะเฮ้ย เอาไปขายต่อไม่ต้องแบ่งกำไรกับผม

เท่านั้นแหละครับ สงครามจิตวิทยาก็เริ่มขึ้น แต่เขาจนมุม กลืนน้ำลายตัวเอง ช็อตเด็ดคือ

เขา : เนี่ยอุส่ารอ บอกเพื่อนในทีมว่าวันจันทร์ที่ 30 กย. ได้ของแน่ๆ เพื่อนๆในทีมเห็นงานผมแล้วมันสวยจริง เลยใส่เงินเต็มที่ 9.3ETH (+ capture screen ส่งตัวเลขยอดเงินมาให้ดู)ไว้รอโดยเฉพาะเลยนะ ผม : เหรอ ... งั้น ขอดู wallet address ที่มี transaction มาให้ดูหน่อยสิ เขา : 2ETH นี่มัน 5000$ เลยนะ ผม : แล้วไง ขอดู wallet address ที่มีการเอายอดเงิน 9.3ETH มาให้ดูหน่อย ไหนบอกว่าเตรียมเงินไว้มากแล้วนี่ ขอดูหน่อย ว่าใส่ไว้เมื่อไหร่ ... เอามาแค่ adrress นะเว้ย ไม่ต้องทะลึ่งส่ง seed มาให้ เขา : ส่งรูปเดิม 9.3 ETH มาให้ดู ผม : รูป screenshot อ่ะ มันไม่มีความหมายหรอกเว้ย ตัดต่อเอาก็ได้ง่ายจะตาย เอา transaction hash มาดู ไหนว่าเตรียมเงินไว้รอ 9.3ETH แล้วอยากซื้องานผมจนตัวสั่นเลยไม่ใช่เหรอ ถ้าจะส่ง wallet address มาให้ดู หรือจะช่วยส่ง 0.15ETH มาให้ยืม mint งานก่อน แล้วมากดซื้อ 2ETH ไป แล้วผมใช้ 0.15ETH คืนให้ก็ได้ จะซื้อหรือไม่ซื้อเนี่ย เขา : จะเอา address เขาไปทำไม ผม : ตัดจบ รำคาญ ไม่ขายให้ละ เขา : 2ETH = 5000 USD เลยนะ ผม : แล้วไง

ผมเลยเขียนบทความนี้มาเตือนเพื่อนๆพี่ๆทุกคนครับ เผื่อใครกำลังเปิดพอร์ตทำธุรกิจขาย digital art online แล้วจะโชคดี เจอของดีแบบผม

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ทำไมผมถึงมั่นใจว่ามันคือการหลอกหลวง แล้วคนโกงจะได้อะไร

อันดับแรกไปพิจารณาดู opensea ครับ เป็นเวบ NFTmarketplace ที่ volume การซื้อขายสูงที่สุด เขาไม่เก็บเงินของคนจะซื้อจะขายกันไว้กับตัวเอง เงินวิ่งเข้าวิ่งออก wallet ผู้ซื้อผู้ขายเลย ส่วนทางเวบเก็บค่าธรรมเนียมเท่านั้น แถมค่าธรรมเนียมก็ถูกกว่าเมื่อปี 2020 เยอะ ดังนั้นการที่จะไปลงขายงานบนเวบ NFT อื่นที่ค่า fee สูงกว่ากันเป็นร้อยเท่า ... จะทำไปทำไม

ผมเชื่อว่า scammer โกงเงินเจ้าของผลงานโดยการเล่นกับความโลภและความอ่อนประสบการณ์ของเจ้าของผลงานครับ เมื่อไหร่ก็ตามที่เจ้าของผลงานโอน ETH เข้าไปใน wallet เวบนั้นเมื่อไหร่ หรือเมื่อไหร่ก็ตามที่จ่ายค่า fee ในการ mint งาน เงินเหล่านั้นสิ่งเข้ากระเป๋า scammer ทันที แล้วก็จะมีการเล่นตุกติกต่อแน่นอนครับ เช่นถอนไม่ได้ หรือซื้อไม่ได้ ต้องโอนเงินมาเพิ่มเพื่อปลดล็อค smart contract อะไรก็ว่าไป แล้วคนนิสัยไม่ดีพวกเนี้ย ก็จะเล่นกับความโลภของคน เอาราคาเสนอซื้อที่สูงโคตรๆมาล่อ ... อันนี้ไม่ว่ากัน เพราะบนโลก NFT รูปภาพบางรูปที่ไม่ได้มีความเป็นศิลปะอะไรเลย มันดันขายกันได้ 100 - 150 ETH ศิลปินที่พยายามสร้างตัวก็อาจจะมองว่า ผลงานเรามีคนรับซื้อ 2 - 4 ETH ต่องานมันก็มากพอแล้ว (จริงๆมากเกินจนน่าตกใจด้วยซ้ำครับ)

บนโลกของ BTC ไม่ต้องเชื่อใจกัน โอนเงินไปหากันได้ ปิดสมุดบัญชีได้โดยไม่ต้องเชื่อใจกัน

บบโลกของ ETH "code is law" smart contract มีเขียนอยู่แล้ว ไปอ่าน มันไม่ได้ยากมากในการทำความเข้าใจ ดังนั้น การจะมาเชื่อคำสัญญาจากคนด้วยกัน เป็นอะไรที่ไม่มีเหตุผล

ผมไปเล่าเรื่องเหล่านี้ให้กับ community งานศิลปะ ก็มีทั้งเสียงตอบรับที่ดี และไม่ดีปนกันไป มีบางคนยืนยันเสียงแข็งไปในทำนองว่า ไอ้เรื่องแบบเนี้ยไม่ได้กินเขาหรอก เพราะเขาตั้งใจแน่วแน่ว่างานศิลป์ของเขา เขาไม่เอาเข้ามายุ่งในโลก digital currency เด็ดขาด ซึ่งผมก็เคารพมุมมองเขาครับ แต่มันจะดีกว่ามั้ย ถ้าเราเปิดหูเปิดตาให้ทันเทคโนโลยี โดยเฉพาะเรื่อง digital currency , blockchain โดนโกงทีนึงนี่คือหมดตัวกันง่ายกว่าเงิน fiat อีก

อยากจะมาเล่าให้ฟังครับ และอยากให้ช่วยแชร์ไปให้คนรู้จักด้วย จะได้ระวังตัวกัน

Note

• ภาพประกอบ cyber security ทั้งสองนี่ของผมเองครับ ทำเอง วางขายบน AdobeStock
• อีกบัญชีนึงของผม "HikariHarmony" npub1exdtszhpw3ep643p9z8pahkw8zw00xa9pesf0u4txyyfqvthwapqwh48sw กำลังค่อยๆเอาผลงานจากโลกข้างนอกเข้ามา nostr ครับ ตั้งใจจะมาสร้างงานศิลปะในนี้ เพื่อนๆที่ชอบงาน จะได้ไม่ต้องออกไปหาที่ไหน

ผลงานของผมครับ - Anime girl fanarts : HikariHarmony - HikariHarmony on Nostr - General art : KeshikiRakuen - KeshikiRakuen อาจจะเป็นบัญชี nostr ที่สามของผม ถ้าไหวครับ

@ 8947a945:9bfcf626

Hello everyone on Nostr and all my watchersand followersfrom DeviantArt, as well as those from other art platforms

I have been creating and sharing AI-generated anime girl fanart since the beginning of 2024 and have been running member-exclusive content on Patreon.

I also publish showcases of my artworks to Deviantart. I organically build up my audience from time to time. I consider it as one of my online businesses of art. Everything is slowly growing

On September 16, I received a DM from someone expressing interest in purchasing my art in NFT format and offering a very high price for each piece. We later continued the conversation via email.

Here’s a brief overview of what happened

• The first scammer selected the art they wanted to buy and offered a high price for each piece. They provided a URL to an NFT marketplace site running on the Ethereum (ETH) mainnet or ERC20. The site appeared suspicious, requiring email sign-up and linking a MetaMask wallet. However, I couldn't change the wallet address later. The minting gas fees were quite expensive, ranging from 0.15 to 0.2 ETH

• The scammers tried to convince me that the high profits would easily cover the minting gas fees, so I had nothing to lose. Luckily, I didn’t have spare funds to purchase ETH for the gas fees at the time, so I tried negotiating with them as follows:

• I offered to send them a lower-quality version of my art via email in exchange for the minting gas fees, but they refused.

• I offered them the option to pay in USD through Buy Me a Coffee shop here, but they refused.
• I offered them the option to pay via Bitcoin using the Lightning Network invoice , but they refused.
• I asked them to wait until I could secure the funds, and they agreed to wait.

The following week, a second scammer approached me with a similar offer, this time at an even higher price and through a different NFT marketplace website.

This second site also required email registration, and after navigating to the dashboard, it asked for a minting fee of 0.2 ETH. However, the site provided a wallet address for me instead of connecting a MetaMask wallet.

I told the second scammer that I was waiting to make a profit from the first sale, and they asked me to show them the first marketplace. They then warned me that the first site was a scam and even sent screenshots of victims, including one from OpenSea saying that Opensea is not paying.

This raised a red flag, and I began suspecting I might be getting scammed. On OpenSea, funds go directly to users' wallets after transactions, and OpenSea charges a much lower platform fee compared to the previous crypto bull run in 2020. Minting fees on OpenSea are also significantly cheaper, around 0.0001 ETH per transaction.

I also consulted with Thai NFT artist communities and the ex-chairman of the Thai Digital Asset Association. According to them, no one had reported similar issues, but they agreed it seemed like a scam.

After confirming my suspicions with my own research and consulting with the Thai crypto community, I decided to test the scammers’ intentions by doing the following

I minted the artwork they were interested in, set the price they offered, and listed it for sale on OpenSea. I then messaged them, letting them know the art was available and ready to purchase, with no royalty fees if they wanted to resell it.

They became upset and angry, insisting I mint the art on their chosen platform, claiming they had already funded their wallet to support me. When I asked for proof of their wallet address and transactions, they couldn't provide any evidence that they had enough funds.

Here’s what I want to warn all artists in the DeviantArt community or other platforms If you find yourself in a similar situation, be aware that scammers may be targeting you.

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My Perspective why I Believe This is a Scam and What the Scammers Gain

From my experience with BTC and crypto since 2017, here's why I believe this situation is a scam, and what the scammers aim to achieve

First, looking at OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace on the ERC20 network, they do not hold users' funds. Instead, funds from transactions go directly to users’ wallets. OpenSea’s platform fees are also much lower now compared to the crypto bull run in 2020. This alone raises suspicion about the legitimacy of other marketplaces requiring significantly higher fees.

I believe the scammers' tactic is to lure artists into paying these exorbitant minting fees, which go directly into the scammers' wallets. They convince the artists by promising to purchase the art at a higher price, making it seem like there's no risk involved. In reality, the artist has already lost by paying the minting fee, and no purchase is ever made.

In the world of Bitcoin (BTC), the principle is "Trust no one" and “Trustless finality of transactions” In other words, transactions are secure and final without needing trust in a third party.

In the world of Ethereum (ETH), the philosophy is "Code is law" where everything is governed by smart contracts deployed on the blockchain. These contracts are transparent, and even basic code can be read and understood. Promises made by people don’t override what the code says.

I also discuss this issue with art communities. Some people have strongly expressed to me that they want nothing to do with crypto as part of their art process. I completely respect that stance.

However, I believe it's wise to keep your eyes open, have some skin in the game, and not fall into scammers’ traps. Understanding the basics of crypto and NFTs can help protect you from these kinds of schemes.

If you found this article helpful, please share it with your fellow artists.

Until next time Take care

Note

• Both cyber security images are mine , I created and approved by AdobeStock to put on sale
• I'm working very hard to bring all my digital arts into Nostr to build my Sats business here to my another npub "HikariHarmony" npub1exdtszhpw3ep643p9z8pahkw8zw00xa9pesf0u4txyyfqvthwapqwh48sw

Link to my full gallery - Anime girl fanarts : HikariHarmony - HikariHarmony on Nostr - General art : KeshikiRakuen

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Das Aufkommen von Sexpuppen stellt zweifellos eine große Herausforderung für das menschliche Konzept von Intimität dar und wirft eine Reihe von philosophischen und ethischen Fragen auf. Sie scheint unser traditionelles Verständnis vom Wesen der Intimität auf den Kopf zu stellen und wirft eine Reihe von philosophischen und ethischen Fragen auf.

Traditionell wurde Intimität als eine einzigartige Verbindung zwischen Menschen betrachtet, die auf gegenseitigem Verständnis, Vertrauen und emotionaler Bindung beruht. Sie impliziert einen wechselseitigen Austausch, Kommunikation und ein inhärentes Bedürfnis nach Empathie. Der intimen Beziehung zwischen Menschen und real sex doll fehlt jedoch offensichtlich diese wechselseitige emotionale Bindung und geistige Ebene. Sexpuppen können die innere Welt des Menschen nicht wirklich verstehen, und was sie bieten, ist nur eine äußere, oberflächliche und einseitige intime Erfahrung.

Daher wird die Auffassung vertreten, dass die intime Beziehung zwischen Sexpuppen und Menschen nur eine Art anthropomorphe Scheinbeziehung ist, die die intimen Bedürfnisse der Menschen auf der geistigen und emotionalen Ebene nicht befriedigen kann und die Entfremdung zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen und die Selbstisolierung des Einzelnen sogar noch verstärken kann. Unter diesem Gesichtspunkt scheinen lebensgroße Sexpuppe die Intimität auf eine rein physische und utilitaristische Ebene zu reduzieren, was eine Verzerrung des Wesens der Intimität und der Grenzüberschreitung darstellt.

Es gibt jedoch auch die Ansicht, dass das Wesen der Intimität nicht statisch ist, sondern sich mit dem Wandel der Zeit und dem Fortschritt der Technologie ständig weiterentwickelt. Auch wenn Sexpuppen keine echte wechselseitige emotionale Verbindung herstellen können, erfüllen sie doch bestimmte Bedürfnisse des Menschen, wie z. B. die Verringerung der Einsamkeit, die Wiederherstellung des sexuellen Selbstbewusstseins und den Erhalt von physischem und psychischem Komfort. Daher kann Intimität, die auf Eigeninteresse beruht, auch als Ausdruck von Intimität betrachtet werden. Dies erweitert und bereichert die Bedeutung und Ausdehnung von Intimität.

Manche meinen sogar, wenn sich die Technologie der künstlichen Intelligenz so weit entwickelt, dass sie in Zukunft die menschliche Natur in hohem Maße simulieren kann und sex puppe die Fähigkeit zu autonomem Denken und aufrichtigen Gefühlen erlangen, kann dann die intime Beziehung zwischen ihr und den Menschen als echte intime Beziehung angesehen werden? Die Definition von Intimität muss dann möglicherweise neu überdacht werden.

Günstige sexpuppe, auch wenn sie klein sind, eröffnen eine neue Perspektive auf das seit langem bestehende Konzept der Intimität und haben viele interessante und tiefgreifende Überlegungen ausgelöst. Wir müssen die Veränderungen, die die Technologie für das menschliche Leben mit sich bringt, aus einer umfassenden Perspektive betrachten, eine offene und tolerante Haltung bewahren und die Bedeutung und die Grenzen von Intimität und die Natur des Menschen in einem rationalen Diskurs ständig neu untersuchen und definieren. Diese Art des kontinuierlichen Denkens und Umgestaltens wird uns voranbringen.

1. https://gab.com/wifesexdoll/posts/113315151952278396
2. https://bsky.app/profile/wifesexdoll.bsky.social/post/3l6m3bgtrlm2j

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Distribuição segura do Linux de código aberto

O sistema operacional Linux Kodachi é baseado no Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS, ele fornecerá a você um sistema operacional seguro, anti-forense e anônimo, considerando todos os recursos que uma pessoa preocupada com a privacidade precisa ter para estar segura.

O Kodachi é muito fácil de usar, tudo o que você precisa fazer é inicializá-lo no seu PC via unidade USB, então você deve ter um sistema operacional totalmente em execução com conexão VPN estabelecida + conexão Tor estabelecida + serviço DNScrypt em execução. Nenhuma configuração ou conhecimento de Linux é necessário de sua parte, nós fazemos tudo para você. Todo o sistema operacional funciona a partir de sua memória RAM temporária, portanto, depois de desligá-lo, nenhum vestígio é deixado para trás, todas as suas atividades são apagadas.

Kodachi é um sistema operacional ao vivo, que você pode iniciar em quase qualquer computador a partir de um DVD, pendrive ou cartão SD. Destina-se a preservar a sua privacidade e anonimato.

Características

Pronto para VPN

Tor Ready com seleção de nó de saída

DNScrypt pronto

Onion Circuits/Onion share

i2p

GNUNET

Carteira multimoeda Exodus

Rkhhunter

Guardião de Pares

Sala do pânico

Bleachbit

Átomo

audibilidade

Zulucrypt

Informações de sistema e segurança na área de trabalho

Wipe Ram

Limpe o espaço livre

Mate o sistema operacional!

Nautilus-wipe

Keepass2x

cavalo marinho

Gpa

Gnupg2Name

Enigmail

gufw

prisão de fogo

geany

Krusader

fundir

Obturador

Htop

Zulumount

FileZillaName

Exterminador do Futuro

Transmissão

Caixa Virtual

Syslinux-utils

Smbclient

dispersar

Fcitx

Ibus

pidgin

Coim

Anel

Sinal

Geoip-bin

Cais do Cairo

pcmanfm

Nmap

Xtrlock

Ncdu

Gksu

Sysv-rc-conf

Rdesktop

GnomeNettoolGenericName

Sinal

GResolver

OpenShot

Icedove

SiriKali

Denyhosts

Steghide

navegador da web Chromium

Gdebi

Comandante Gnomo

Visualizadores de imagens de luz Blender Viewnior e Risrtto

barulhento

Iridium-browser

raposa d'água

sincronizando

carteira jaxx

bomba nuclear

persistência

https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxkodachi/

https://www.youtube.com/live/gCHjRQOTZmQ?feature=share

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O MuPDF é uma biblioteca de software leve e de código aberto que oferece recursos avançados de visualização e manipulação de documentos. Desenvolvido pela Artifex Software, o MuPDF foi projetado para ser rápido, eficiente e altamente portátil, tornando-se uma escolha popular para aplicativos que exigem recursos avançados de renderização de documentos.

A história do MuPDF remonta ao ano de 2005, quando a Artifex Software iniciou o desenvolvimento dessa biblioteca para atender à necessidade de visualização rápida e eficiente de documentos em dispositivos com recursos limitados. Desde então, o MuPDF tem sido constantemente aprimorado e aperfeiçoado, ganhando reconhecimento por sua capacidade de processar e exibir uma variedade de formatos de documento de maneira eficiente.

Uma das principais características do MuPDF é sua arquitetura modular. Ele foi projetado para ser flexível e adaptável, permitindo que os desenvolvedores integrem facilmente seus recursos em seus próprios aplicativos. O MuPDF suporta uma variedade de formatos de documento, incluindo PDF, XPS, EPUB, CBZ, e mais. Essa versatilidade garante que os usuários possam visualizar e interagir com diferentes tipos de documentos de forma conveniente e eficiente.

Em termos de funcionalidade, o MuPDF oferece recursos avançados de renderização, permitindo uma visualização precisa e de alta qualidade de documentos. Ele suporta recursos como zoom, rotação, navegação por páginas e pesquisa de texto, oferecendo uma experiência de visualização interativa e intuitiva. Além disso, o MuPDF permite a extração de texto e imagens de documentos, facilitando a manipulação e o processamento de conteúdo.

Uma das vantagens do MuPDF é sua eficiência. Ele foi projetado para ter um desempenho rápido e usar poucos recursos do sistema, tornando-o ideal para dispositivos com capacidades limitadas, como smartphones ou tablets. Sua arquitetura otimizada garante uma inicialização rápida e uma resposta ágil às interações do usuário, proporcionando uma experiência de visualização de documentos suave e sem interrupções.

O MuPDF também é altamente customizável e extensível. Os desenvolvedores têm a liberdade de personalizar a interface e adicionar recursos específicos de acordo com as necessidades de seus aplicativos. Isso permite uma integração perfeita do MuPDF em diferentes contextos e cenários, tornando-o uma escolha versátil para uma ampla gama de aplicativos.

Uma das principais questões que o MuPDF resolve é a visualização eficiente de documentos em dispositivos com recursos limitados. Sua arquitetura leve e otimizada permite que dispositivos com baixa capacidade de processamento e memória possam exibir documentos de maneira rápida e eficiente. Isso é especialmente importante em um mundo onde os dispositivos móveis desempenham um papel central e a capacidade de visualizar documentos em movimento é fundamental.

Para os usuários, o MuPDF oferece uma solução confiável e eficiente para visualizar, interagir e manipular documentos. Seja lendo um livro eletrônico, revisando um contrato em formato PDF ou navegando por uma revista digital, o MuPDF fornece uma experiência de visualização suave e de alta qualidade. Sua capacidade de lidar com diferentes formatos de documento e sua eficiência em dispositivos com recursos limitados o tornam uma escolha valiosa para quem busca uma solução de visualização de documentos confiável e de alto desempenho.

O MuPDF é uma biblioteca de software que oferece recursos avançados de visualização e manipulação de documentos. Com sua arquitetura modular, eficiência, customização e suporte a vários formatos de documento, o MuPDF se destaca como uma solução poderosa para atender às necessidades de visualização de documentos em diferentes contextos e dispositivos. Seja para desenvolvedores que desejam integrar recursos de visualização em seus aplicativos ou para usuários que procuram uma experiência de visualização de documentos confiável e eficiente, o MuPDF é uma escolha sólida.

https://mupdf.com/

https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/mupdf

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Com uma interface intuitiva e poderosa, o Librera torna a experiência de leitura de e-books verdadeiramente agradável.

Algumas características principais do Librera incluem: - Descoberta fácil de documentos através de critérios configuráveis, incluindo verificação automática de pastas predefinidas e navegação com um explorador de arquivos no aplicativo. - Visualização de documentos recentes com indicador de progresso de leitura. - Suporte para marcadores, anotações e índices EPUB3. - Conexão com nuvens e catálogos online, e sincronização entre dispositivos Android via Google Drive para progresso de leitura e favoritos. - Modos dia e noite configuráveis, incluindo cor de link personalizável para notas de rodapé e notas finais. - Suporte para dicionários populares online e offline, bloqueio de rolagem vertical e centralização automática e manual de documentos. - Possibilidade de inserir código CSS personalizado, visualização de página única de documentos de duas páginas e modo de músico com velocidade de rolagem ajustável. - Leitura TTS personalizável e reprodutor de mídia integrado, pesquisa de texto com várias palavras e conversão de documentos online. - Leitura de documentos arquivados (.zip) e suporte para idiomas RTL (tailandês, hebraico, árabe, etc.). - Importação e exportação de configurações, backup automático da sessão atual e iniciais principais em documentos FB2.

Com o Librera Reader, é fácil criar bibliotecas auto-mantidas de documentos, selecionando os formatos a serem incluídos e as pastas a serem digitalizadas. A biblioteca pode ser visualizada em forma de lista ou grade, com capas de miniaturas ajustáveis e descrições detalhadas para identificação dos documentos. A organização da biblioteca pode ser feita por caminho, nome, tamanho, data, etc., e um filtro auxilia na busca por documentos específicos ou grupos. Durante a leitura, os documentos podem ser bloqueados em modo de rolagem vertical e navegados por página ou tela. É possível reformatar o texto e fazer anotações, além de personalizar fontes e fundos através das configurações. Trechos selecionados podem ser traduzidos, compartilhados, copiados e pesquisados dentro do próprio documento ou na Internet.

https://github.com/foobnix/LibreraReader

https://f-droid.org/pt_BR/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/

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Opinion about Kanga Wallet (iphone)

Caution should be exercised when dealing with investment firms , as i unfortunately experienced a significant loss with an online investment company . With the assistance of Againstcon. com , i was able to successfully track and recover my funds . Their intervention was pivotal in resolving the situation effectively

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Table Of Content

• Whales and Sharks: The Big Players in the Crypto Ocean

• June's Close: A Bullish Signal

• Data-Driven Predictions: The Role of Crypto Intelligence

• Whale Holdings: Keeping the Selling Pressure at Bay

• Historical Trends: July as a Profitable Month

• Conclusion

• FAQ

The cryptocurrency market is a dynamic and rapidly evolving space, with Bitcoin (BTC) at its forefront. One of the key factors influencing the market's trajectory is the activity of large-scale investors, often referred to as 'whales' and 'sharks.' These entities hold substantial volumes of digital assets, and their investment decisions can significantly sway market trends. Recently, these influential players have been doubling down on their Bitcoin investments, particularly as June 2023 drew to a close with BTC valued at an impressive $30,469. This article aims to explore this trend in detail, examining the potential implications for Bitcoin's future and the broader cryptocurrency market.

Whales and Sharks: The Big Players in the Crypto Ocean

In the vast and diverse ocean of cryptocurrencies, whales and sharks are the entities that hold large volumes of digital assets. Their actions, whether buying or selling, often have a substantial impact on the market, influencing price trends and investor sentiment. Over the past seven weeks, these large wallet investors have shown a strong appetite for Bitcoin, accumulating an impressive 154,500 BTC. The pace of this accumulation has notably picked up in the last two weeks. These investors have been capitalizing on market dips to increase their holdings, a strategy often referred to as 'buying the dip.' This trend suggests a strong confidence in Bitcoin's potential and could have significant implications for its future price trajectory.

June's Close: A Bullish Signal

June 2023 proved to be a significant month for Bitcoin, with the cryptocurrency closing at $30,469. This figure represents the highest monthly close for Bitcoin in the past thirteen months, a noteworthy milestone given the asset's volatility. This bullish signal has sparked optimism among investors and analysts alike, fueling a thesis for a potential recovery and upward trend for Bitcoin in the coming months. If this prediction holds true, it could mark a turning point for Bitcoin, potentially leading to increased investor interest and further price appreciation.

Data-Driven Predictions: The Role of Crypto Intelligence

In the complex and often opaque world of cryptocurrencies, crypto intelligence platforms like Santiment play a crucial role. These platforms track and analyze market trends, providing valuable insights into the behavior of large-scale investors and the overall market dynamics. According to Santiment's data, Bitcoin's whale and shark addresses accumulated a staggering 154,500 BTC within a seven-week period between April 2023 and the time of writing. The acceleration of Bitcoin accumulation in the past two weeks suggests a strong confidence in the asset's potential for recovery. This data-driven insight provides a valuable perspective on the market sentiment and could be a key indicator of Bitcoin's future performance.

Whale Holdings: Keeping the Selling Pressure at Bay

One of the intriguing aspects of the Bitcoin market is the concentration of holdings among whales. Bitcoin whale wallets, those holding between 10 and 10,000 tokens, now control 67% of the total supply of the asset. This concentration of holdings can be seen as a positive sign for Bitcoin. By holding onto a significant portion of the supply, whales reduce the selling pressure on the asset. This can create a more stable environment for price growth, as it reduces the likelihood of sudden price drops due to large-scale sell-offs. This dynamic could increase the potential for a recovery in Bitcoin's price and contribute to its long-term stability.

Historical Trends: July as a Profitable Month

Historical trends can often provide valuable insights into potential future market trends. For Bitcoin, the month of July has consistently proven to be profitable for holders over the last three years. This trend, coupled with the recent surge in whale accumulation, suggests that Bitcoin's price may recover from recent market fluctuations. These include the impact of the SEC's crackdown on crypto exchanges and increased regulatory scrutiny. If this trend continues, July could once again prove to be a profitable month for Bitcoin investors, potentially marking the start of a new upward trend.

Conclusion

The recent actions of Bitcoin whales and sharks, coupled with historical trends and market data, paint a promising picture for Bitcoin's future. The significant accumulation of BTC, the highest monthly close in over a year, and the potential for a profitable July all point towards a positive outlook for the asset. However, as with all investments, these trends should not be taken as definitive predictions. Market dynamics are subject to change, and investors should always conduct thorough research and consider various factors before making investment decisions. The world of cryptocurrencies is as exciting as it is unpredictable, and the actions of Bitcoin whales and sharks will continue to be a critical aspect to watch in the unfolding narrative of this digital asset.

FAQ

Who are Bitcoin whales and sharks? Bitcoin whales and sharks are large-scale investors who hold substantial volumes of Bitcoin. Their investment activities can significantly influence market trends.

What has been the recent trend among Bitcoin whales and sharks? Over the past seven weeks, Bitcoin whales and sharks have doubled down on their investments, accumulating 154,500 BTC, especially as June ended with BTC valued at $30,469.

What does June's closing value signify for Bitcoin? June 2023 closed with Bitcoin valued at $30,469, the highest monthly close in the past thirteen months. This has sparked optimism for a potential recovery and upward trend for Bitcoin.

What percentage of Bitcoin's total supply do whale wallets control? Bitcoin whale wallets, those holding between 10 and 10,000 tokens, now control 67% of the total supply of the asset.

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When people talk about financial freedom, they often focus on investing, saving, or building wealth. But sometimes, the most valuable skills or habits are the ones that aren’t talked about enough. Maybe it’s discipline, emotional resilience, or even something unexpected like negotiation or patience.

What do you think is the most underrated skill or habit for achieving real financial independence?

For me, the most underrated skill is delayed gratification. It’s not just about resisting the urge to spend money now, it’s about thinking long-term in everything you do. When I first started learning about Bitcoin and freedom, I realized that the biggest hurdle wasn’t just making money, but knowing when to hold off on spending it for the right opportunities.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/727313

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I went 4-1 last week, but it’s just the beginning of digging out of a deep hole, so I’m not gonna get excited about it just yet.

Broncos at Saints — I’d say Broncos -2. Feels like a Saints bet at home with the short week, but I won’t use it.

Patriots vs Jaguars (London) — Think I saw this line was 5.5 or something. That seems big, but Jaguars are probably a hold-your-nose-and-buy-low.

Seahawks at Falcons — Think I saw this was 2.5. I kind of like the Falcons but the Seahawks are the buy-low.

Titans at Bills — Amari Cooper is just what the Bills needed. I don’t see the point in the Titans. I’ll say 10 and if anything would lay the wood.

Bengals at Browns — Maybe Bengals -3.5, and you’d take the Browns as a buy-low in division, but I can’t.

Texans at Packers — Texans +2.5 and probably take the Packers at home. The Texans offense is too slow.

Dolphins at Colts — Dolphins +4, probably take the Colts, though it’s unclear who the QB will be.

Lions at Vikings — Make it Lions +2, but the loss of Aidan Hutchinson really hurts. I’d probably take the Lions still.

Eagles at Giants — I’ll say Eagles -3 with Andrew Thomas out. And who knows about Malik Nabers with the lingering concussion? The Giants are playing better though. Pass.

Raiders at Rams — I’ll say Raiders plus 3.5. Probably take the Raiders if pressed, but pass.

Panthers at Indigenous Peoples — Maybe 8.5, would probably take the Panthers.

Chiefs at 49ers — Think I saw the 49ers were slight favorites. I’ll make it Chiefs +2, take the 49ers.

Jets at Steelers — I’d make it a pick’em and probably take the Jets. Not because of Davante Adams, but Russell Wilson if he starts.

Ravens at Buccaneers — Let’s say Ravens -3. I’d probably lay the wood in that case too.

Chargers at Cardinals — What’s wrong with Kyler Murray? I’ll say Chargers minus 2.5 and maybe hold my nose with the Cardinals.

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Hey Rabble, brace yourself for a whirlwind tour of Nostr's latest gabfest! From the quiet musings of our "Public Square" turning into a cozy campfire chat, to the hilariously oddball "#toiletchain" saga, the platform's been nothing if not entertaining. Meanwhile, passionate debates over Musk's Twitter antics and the timeless charm of a 3-minute scroll session keep everyone on their toes. It's a riotous mix of tech talk, light-hearted banter, and nostalgic tunes, sprinkled with a dash of rust in Minecraft—tonight's episode is not to be missed! Dive in, and remember: in Nostr-land, chaos is where the fun begins.

Quiet Nostr Vibes 📉

Hey, so our buddy 7fqx kicked off a super chill thread wondering why Nostr's been so hush-hush lately. Everyone seems to agree it's quieter than usual, with Sedd chiming in with a simple, "It is."

nielliesmons joked about turning the Nostr feed into a cozy community chat, while npub1f9kn3a5cv4fsq2x86gfrznfuumtqtu6j3fkyqg9qvlymt0zflvfsn3v9fa insisted it’s not as quiet as it seems. The whole convo turned into a laugh about "reply guys" and how it feels like a dev chat sometimes. captain ☦️ threw in a rebellious "delete Twitter!" moment, but 7fqx was like, "Nah, Twitter still has its gems."

Catch up with the banter and check out the full convo here.

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Twitter vs Nostr Showdown 🥊

7fqx echoed some thoughts about how even their sneaky Twitter lurking is feeling the quiet blues. captain ☦️, ever the rebel, says to "delete Twitter!" 🤭 But 7fqx is keeping it chill, mentioning they follow around 200 peeps so they still find plenty of action, even in a quick "15 min" or let's be real, more like "3 min" scroll session. 😂

Catch this mellow chat right here.

Musk, Nitter and the Great RSS Debate

So, captain ☦️ kicked things off wondering if Nitter could still be a thing. But 7fqx quickly snuffed that out, saying Nitter's not working anymore. 😢 The chat turned into chatter about making RSS feeds from Twitter accounts, with captain ☦️ throwing some shade at Mr. Musk, quipping, "Musk won't let us have nice things." 😂

Check out the full convo here.

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The Fiatjaf Chronicles: Old Alliances and New Concerns

melvincarvalho is spilling the tea about their long history with Fiatjaf, praising some of his past brilliance but worried about his new vibes around censorship and centralization—ya know, the stuff that makes the OGs a bit uneasy.

npub1u8r69esh5r7jt29nj9ufmz4yvuwp6cwl5xqp4e3d46vl8wla5smsexjcky chimed in with some serious talk about dealing with nasty stuff like CP on the network or risk the place getting shut down. Meanwhile, npub192klhzk86sav5mgkfmveyjq50ygqfqnfvq0lvr2yv0zdtvatlhxskg43u7 is side-eyeing the decision to air this publicly rather than DMing like, "Isn't this a private convo kinda deal?"

npub1c80wmfpzc7dkghh93kxtrwpe5gdztynvnk2vy93ge68zmzwrm0yqq5h5s7 was like, "Hey, just saying the obvious—keeping everything forever is a disaster waiting to happen," while npub1snw24avwcuz9w672t3wt5jhj82xfd0ynz0ylum90sez9tg4k0u9s4jwee3 is all, "Why ditch privacy, bro?"

Check out the full convo here.

Nostr Drama and Hot Takes 🎭

The convo heated up with npub1m2u4v2jtz4np0y3lk2anr4vm4vr4l7jlr7y94qglhfrgewsczchqg6y2gl bringing some real talk about how it feels like everything's being pushed artificially. They emphasized the fear tactics being used, highlighting their clear stance in the mix!

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Quick Flick Opinions 🎬

zach is on a movie binge with "There Will Be Blood", and everyone's chiming in! sophiaw1926 can't get enough of Daniel Day-Lewis, while Mister G 😎♻️ 🚛 🍏 🗽 🥾 🌆 ⚡ had a laugh about the relentless quest for oil. Classic flick talk with a sprinkle of humor!

Check out the full convo here

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Print's Swan Song 📰

roya ୨୧ brought up a heartfelt topic about the end of an era with print media. Some mournful vibes with npub1mhe7uv6m6faes325wsmwygp2mtw6gdylqxp8gak4zgy374qx6hxsxwwzcz mentioning the last pony express rider's retirement! A true throwback moment.

Check out the full convo here

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Scrolling Adventures 📱

7fqx is all about condensing Twitter into a 3-minute browse! captain ☦️ threw a shade towards Musk for not letting us enjoy the simple things like Nitter, sparking a mix of innovation and nostalgia.

Check out the full convo here

🎵 Nostalgic Tunes and Lost Soundscapes 🎶

So, walker is feeling all sorts of emotional about #tunestr and shared a throwback video that got the convo buzzing! 🎶 npub1gk76j57d8w3x8dudj4wllvdke6u7kcqd20j6cwuawkqa90q72x8qqw5nqq reminisced about discovering these jams through Stubz the Zombie, which, let's be honest, might be the coolest way to find new music. Meanwhile, npub1qs5ft8k8lznjkl7yym36707fsxjv3dnxnfpm4j64xrdwkn8tw0sqcfp27v chimed in with some deep thoughts on how everything's gone downhill since "Subversion and Degeneration". On a lighter note, ltngstore just gave a ✨ shoutout to The Chordettes. Classic! Check out the full convo here.

🛠️ Rust-y Pixels in Minecraft Land 🧩

iefan 🕊️ hit us with some mind-blowing updates about a Minecraft server built in Rust, boasting crazy CPU and RAM performance! 🤯 localhost couldn’t contain their excitement and suggested we "rebuild it all in Rust", adding a bunch of laugh emojis for good measure. 😂 iefan 🕊️ dropped a link to some epic benchmarks, while npub1h29aysw658hzgzh523t8zrw6jc72qnjgz045regl7k3htklu5s4qcqjkze stirred the pot by commenting on the Rust community's vibe. Classic tech banter! Check out the full convo here.

📣 Always Listening but Not Always Understanding 🎧

Sebastix dropped a simple yet intriguing "I'm always listening". But npub1f9kn3a5cv4fsq2x86gfrznfuumtqtu6j3fkyqg9qvlymt0zflvfsn3v9fa wasn't having it, calling out the authenticity of that statement. 🤔 They also threw in some cryptic musings about Cathrine and intelligence, complete with a martial arts emoji for effect. Sounds like there's more to this story! 🥋 Check out the full convo here.

🤫 Quiet Revolution in the Public Square 🎙️

nielliesmons brought the sass with a post about the evolving "Public Square" vibes. They joked about how things might get so low-key that we’d just chat directly in the feed, throwing some shade at "Twitter-clone maxis". 😉 No major interactions yet, but this one's bound to stir up some laughs and debates soon. Check out the full convo here.

🎉 #Toiletchain Chronicles 😂

So, 7fqx started things off with a cheeky "#toiletchain!" post. It's the kind of randomness we all love, right? Silberengel threw in their own twist, clarifying they were talking about computer logs, but made it hilarious with a little "okay" 😂, while npub1mc20uche0cy599vpl850aschpu7wteundgsnf0msep79lu3fu5aq3r4ptv chimed in with "#poopstr" and even dropped a bowel movement emoji with an image link. Gotta love a good poop joke, right? 💩

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🤔 Presidential Ponderings

Karnage was musing about the title "presidential candidate" vs. "President Trump." You know, the little things people get hung up on. npub1m2u4v2jtz4np0y3lk2anr4vm4vr4l7jlr7y94qglhfrgewsczchqg6y2gl suggested we just call it "presdent" 😂, trying to keep it light. But then npub1ncavrt6e38e94c6desg9tllzer0jey30rlh8whjtkpl9tcvvc8vs9ee00s dropped a little realism in there, noting how "normal" is key in these times. It's good to keep it real, right?

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🦖 Dinosaur Delights

In classic Karnage style, they just asked, "Dinosaurs?" 😂 Sounds like the start of a random but potentially awesome conversation, right? utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 delivered with a legendary "DEEZ NUTZ" joke along with a perfectly silly gif, making us all laugh out loud. 🐸😂 Then Karnage responded with a suave "cheers" gif. 🥂

Check out the full convo here

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🌄 Morning Greetz from the #Nostriches!

archjourney welcomed everyone with a bright and cheery "Goood Morning #nostriches!" and shared some cool vibes with an image. It’s all about that positive morning energy, right? npub1dvs7rcq8vtus2nd45xamajnzt7clhxe2yvywenz5kmatdc2klljsa64fgv and npub1ztyqtftdkt6q36gux3xptn4ldv7sdpqka3rvhvlmna50e9t7kx4qk5kfjr replied with their own cheery "GM" greetings, spreading that morning love. 💜

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🤣 In the Moment

agichoote was feeling a bit cheeky with their post "At this very moment 🤣". Diyana wanted to know what deep thoughts were going on, maybe expecting some juicy gossip? But then agichoote says they’d like to be single again! 😂 Oh boy, someone’s in a mood!

Check out the full convo here

Buzzing About the Twitterverse and Cozy Family Chaos 🌐🏡

7fqx started off the day lamenting that Nitter isn't working anymore and dreaming about a way to blast some Twitter updates through good ol' RSS feeds. Then, captain ☦️ chimed in with a classic quip about Musk messing up their Twitter fun. 🤭

agichoote hit us with a photo to celebrate some of those magical "gooder" mornings in the Alps. And who popped in to greet them with a sunny GM? None other than npub1x95l2dxqqz0szeanud0cvftkkzcj3zqxsl8x48y8dszql6k49r3s42tdv7! 🌄

Over in family land, nielliesmons shared the cultural chaos of living in two countries with both grandmas under one roof! Sounds like a sitcom in the making, with three generations and constant visits turning the house into a lively hub. Silberengel can relate, being proud to be THOSE people who might just make the neighbors call the cops with their bustling family gatherings. 😂

Lastly, things turned political when Karnage poked some fun at Trump supporters, causing quite the stir. Of course, npub1spdeklkg7zd43ygdf8s5mtxe2d9eha0v6kndaef83r7y9u2h5xyse0dfw6 had to jump in with a sly comment on Trump's "stable genius." All in good humor! 😆

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Hey Rabble, pull up a chair because you're just in time for the latest episode of "As the Nostr World Turns." Our pal dropped a cryptic teaser, "Who will the reply guys reply to?" and not a peep in response—apparently, everyone's playing it cool or composing their reply-guy manifestos in secret. It's all suspense in the Nostr universe—like waiting to see who spoils the plot twist in a whodunit! Dive into the full scoop to see if the reply guys finally emerge from the shadows or if today’s just another day at the Nostr library.

Who's on the Reply Guy Radar? 🤔📲

So, our buddy 7fqx dropped a little teaser, asking the infamous question, "Who will the reply guys reply to?? 👀👀" and, surprise, surprise, no one jumped in to say just yet! 😂 Maybe everyone's just lurking, waiting to pounce with their hottest takes, or maybe today's just a chill day in the Nostr world.

It's like a mystery waiting to unfold—who's gonna be the target of those top-notch reply guy comments? Maybe next time, we'll see some lively debates or cheeky banter popping off!

Check out the full convo here

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Hey Rabble, grab your digital binoculars because things are getting interesting in the land of Nostr! 🌿 It seems like our favorite corner of the internet has hit a tranquil patch, perhaps due to those elusive relays or the shenanigans of our stealthy friend Amethyst Tor. 😏 Even Twitter seems to be catching the snooze vibe—coincidence or cosmic quiet time? Whether it's a glitch or just the universe telling us to take a breath, there's plenty of intrigue to unfold. Come see what the hush is all about and join the conversation on what might just be a covert operation.

Quiet Days and Lurking Ways 🌿

So, 7fqx was just chillin' and chatting about how things are feeling a bit too quiet on Nostr these days. They're wondering if it's something to do with the relay setup or maybe Amethyst Tor being sneaky. 😏 But no sweat, it seems their Twitter lurking account is on a similar silent mode. Maybe it’s one of those universal quiet vibes? Who knows! Either way, sounds like they're taking the calm in stride—just another day in the digital world.

Check out the full convo here

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Gather 'round, fellow Nostronauts, because we've stumbled upon a delightful riddle that has the community all abuzz! Our chat rooms are buzzing with speculation over a cryptic message that's as enigmatic as a cat in a box, and twice as intriguing. Is it a profound oracle or just somebody's way of keeping us on our toes? No answers yet, but the mystery is as thick as pea soup, and everyone's eager to play detective. Grab your magnifying glasses, folks, it’s going to be a fun one!

"Mysterious Musings"

Well, things have been pretty quiet, but there's this intriguing note dropped by our pal 7fqx. The message just says "(Moreso than usual)," and it's definitely piqued everyone's curiosity! 🤔 What do they mean? Is it cryptic, philosophical, or just 7fqx being their mysterious self? No replies yet, but you bet folks are scratching their heads trying to figure out what's up. Stay tuned for any revelations!

Check out the full convo here

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Grab your critical thinking caps and prepare to leap into the philosophical rabbit hole of the latest Nostr musings! Our friend Rabble led the charge this week with an enigmatic nugget, leaving everyone trying to decipher the hidden Zen within. Between bursts of digital epiphany and meme-sharing giggles, it’s the kind of puzzle that makes you simultaneously ponder the universe and question your choice of breakfast cereal. Dive into the conversation and see if you can crack the code—or at the very least, snag a laugh or two!

More Thoughts Than Usual 🤔

Looks like 7fqx was in a pensive mood, sharing a quick thought with us: "(Moreso than usual)". It's one of those cryptic yet intriguing updates that left the rest of the crew wondering what's going on behind those words. You know how it is, one minute everyone's all "deep thoughts," the next we're laughing over memes. 😅 No replies yet, but definitely a convo starter for anyone looking to dive deep!

Check out the full convo here

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Hey there, fellow Nostronauts! 🌌 While we were all casually sipping our metaphorical tea, Karnage decided to break the internet with a zinger about "Trump simps in dismay," complete with a battalion of emojis. But hold onto your hats—everyone else was apparently on a wordless meditation retreat because the post was met with the deafening sound of cricket chirrups. Dive into the full convo for a dose of drama, possibly the quietest hoo-ha in Nostr history! 🦗☕

Trump Talk and Tea ☕

So, here's the deal. Our friend Karnage stirred the pot with their post about "Trump simps in dismay" 😮 🤣 (looks like they went all in on the emojis). Seems like it was a spicy take, but can you believe it—no one replied, reacted, or even reposted! Guess everyone was either too shocked or quietly agreeing? 🤭

Check out the full convo here

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Gather 'round, fellow screen enthusiasts, as we poke fun at the cosmic conundrum that is our collective love affair with TV, all ignited by [SOUTHSIDE]'s seemingly innocuous query, "tv?" It's as if they tossed a remote-control-shaped pebble into a pond, causing ripples of silent contemplation or perhaps a mad dash to the nearest streaming platform. Are we on the verge of a great debate over the merits of classic noir versus contemporary sci-fi? Or are we all just too entranced by the latest plot twist? Either way, settle in and brace yourself for a discussion as sprawling as your favorite series' character development arcs.

TV Talk with SOUTHSIDE 📺

So, SOUTHSIDE popped in asking "tv?" and honestly, it was like the universe asking a deep, philosophical question. 😆 It seems like everyone was momentarily speechless, or maybe they all rushed off to binge-watch something. Who knows? Maybe they're just gearing up for an epic TV show debate. Stay tuned!

Check out the full convo here

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Pour yourself a bowl of popcorn because our latest Nostr chat tiptoes into the world of TV with the thrilling opener of... "tv?" It's the kind of conversation starter that's just begging for a cascade of couch-potato confessions and passionate debates over plot twists—yet, somehow it's still on the "to be continued" list! Will "tv?" lead to the next binge-watching must-have or remain the world's shortest TV guide? Tune in to find the laughs and insights in a discussion that's one remote control away from coming alive. 📺

TV Talk Time 🎬

Looks like SOUTHSIDE kicked off a conversation with a simple "tv?" The chat didn't have any replies yet, but you know how it goes. Sometimes a single word can start a whole stream of recommendations and nostalgic trips down TV memory lane. Maybe next time, someone will jump in with their latest binge-worthy show. 📺

Check out the full convo here

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Hey there, emoji enthusiasts and cryptic communicators! 🤔🌍🕵️‍♂️ This week's Nostr chatter dabbled in a bit of linguistic revolution, where emojis might just be the secret sauce to convey everything from philosophical musings to global quandaries without uttering a traditional word. Forget the book club—grab your decoder ring and popcorn, because these tiny symbols are dropping some colossal wisdom without needing a single voice to chime in. Ready to unearth what a gun and a globe can reveal together? 📖✨ Let's dive into the conversation!

Emoji-Wise Words 🌍🔫

So, our friend nielliesmons dropped a brilliant, emoji-packed one-liner that's got everyone thinking. 🤔 How cool is it that emojis, combined with the alphabet, might be the ultimate way to express ourselves in writing? It's like a mini mind-blown moment in just a few symbols. Who knew gun and globe could say so much without a single soul jumping in for a reply yet? 📖✨

Check out the full convo here

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Hold onto your typewriters, folks, because our latest Nostr chatter has taken us on a whimsical time-travel ride back to the era of ink-stained fingers and press hats. Our pal shared a delicious tidbit about none other than Joseph Pulitzer planting the seeds of The Post-Dispatch, reminding us there's more to our morning news than just cat memes and weather updates! As we sip our virtual brew, could there be a revival in the air for the romance of old-school journalism? Dive into the conversation and see if anyone's dusting off their newsboy caps—a Pulitzer-worthy tale might just be bubbling up!

Pulitzer and Other Tidbits

Guess what? 📰 Our friend roya ୨୧ dropped a fun tidbit about The Post-Dispatch—turns out, it was founded by none other than Joseph Pulitzer himself! It sparked a neat little history lesson moment, even without any replies yet. Maybe it's just one of those things that could spur an interesting convo about newspapers and journalism nostalgia. 📚

Check out the full convo here

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Blast off with us as we dive into the Nostr stratosphere, where philosophical musings are rocketing beyond the usual ideological skirmishes. Our cerebral astronaut, the user known as Rabble, has us looking up and contemplating a whole new elevation. Forget left or right—it's all about the climb! Who knew the secret to enlightenment might just be hitting ctrl+alt+ascend? Strap in for some sky-high ideas and a sprinkle of space humor that might just have you rethinking your own trajectory towards greatness.

Nostr's Sky-High Philosophy 🚀

Sebastix is dropping some philosophy bombs with their take on navigating life! They're all about climbing upwards rather than getting lost in the usual left vs. right debates. With Nostr, they're saying it’s all about rising to the top, and honestly, who doesn’t love a good underdog success story? 🤓🫡

It’s been quiet on the reply front, but knowing our crew, it won't be long before someone jumps in with a hot take or a joke. Maybe everyone’s just busy plotting their own climb to the top!

Check out the full convo here

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Pack your virtual bags and slip on those shades, because Nostr's latest chatter takes us on a whirlwind tour of Miami infused with Taco Bell vibes and a Selena soundtrack that would make even the chilliest of maracas shake. Dive into tales of sun-soaked nostalgia and the art of balancing a chalupa in one hand while taking the perfect beach selfie with the other. Whether you're in it for the travel inspiration or the sheer joy of living vicariously through others' adventures, this roundup is the perfect escape without leaving your couch. 🌮✨

Miami Vibes and Taco Bell Times 🌴🌮

So, our good friend BRB‽ has just landed safely in Miami with their bestie, and it sounds like a total vibe! 🎉 They're kicking back, sipping drinks, munching on Taco Bell, and getting nostalgic with some Selena tunes. Talk about a perfect mini-vacation setup! 💕🫂 The post was all smiles and good times, with some awesome pics and videos of Miami sights—the perfect mix of relaxation and fun. Everyone needs a break like this sometimes! 😎

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@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Pack your virtual bags and slip on your sunglasses, because this week on Nostr, we're jetting off to Miami for a slice of the good life! 🌴 From Taco Bell feasts to Selena marathons, it's like someone bottled up the essence of fun, popped the cork, and let the good times flow. If your FOMO levels are reaching critical, grab a piña colada and dig into our juicy tidbits where the sun's always shining and the vibes are all good. Cheers! 🍹✨

Miami Vibes with 💕BRB‽

Looks like BRB‽ has landed safely in Miami and is totally living the dream! 🌴 She's chilling with her bestie, sipping drinks, munching on Taco Bell, and binge-watching Selena. Sounds like the ultimate minivaca! You can almost hear the laughter and good vibes through the screen. Don't you just wish you were there soaking up the sun alongside them? 🙌🏾

• Check out the full convo here

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Grab your forks and raise your tray tables, folks! This week's Nostr wanderings took to the skies with larger-than-life tales of cheesecake confections and in-flight recognition all spiced with a mischievous hint of durian. Who knew revealing your stint at the Bangkok Post could make as much of an impact as divulging dessert secrets at 30,000 feet? Whether you’re here for the sweet or the savory of air-borne adventures, there’s no missing out on this week’s captivating exchange that somehow left the mystery of the cheesecake recipe hanging in mid-air! Dive in to unearth every crumb of these high-flying revelations!

Cheesecake Confessions at 30,000 Feet 🛫

Hey! So Carl Malamud had quite the chat with a flight attendant on their flight. Get this—they not only impressed her by identifying her Thai accent but also claimed they invented Durian cheesecake! 🍰 Talk about a conversation starter, right? Imagine the stories swapped when you drop you wrote for the Bangkok Post. No wonder they had everyone captivated even without any replies yet. Can you believe no one jumped in to ask for the cheesecake recipe or about writing for the Bangkok Post? Classic sky-high banter!

Check out the full convo here

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Gather 'round, brainy bunch! The latest buzz in the Nostr sphere is like getting a tantalizing whiff of your neighbor's BBQ—enticing, but you're still not quite sure what's cooking. Our inventive comrade threw down a "Very good idea" without spilling the beans, leaving the community at the edge of their virtual seats, predicting DM storms and clandestine brainstorming sessions. Will this mystery unveil the next big thing, or are we all just popcorn-ready for nothing? Dive in and let's unravel the intrigue together! 🍿✨

Genius Idea Brainstorm 🌟

Hey! So, I didn't want you left out on this one—our pal melvincarvalho just threw out what sounded like a pretty rad idea. They simply called it a "Very good idea," which piqued everybody's interest but left everyone hanging, because of the suspense, right? 😂

The post didn't get any replies yet, but knowing this crew, they probably shot off some epic DMs or are plotting to help flesh out the idea. Anticipation is high!

Anyway, it seems like we're all waiting to see what juicy details they'll drop next. Stay tuned; it's bound to get interesting! 😉

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@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Hey there, digital explorers! 🌐 This week's Nostr chats have taken a turn for the tender, with an outpouring of virtual hugs and heart emojis melting even the iciest screens. It seems like optimism has gone viral, proving that a well-timed emoji can jazz up any day and say what words simply can't. Dive in and see how this contagiously cuddly vibe is bringing our lively community even closer together. Trust us, you won't want to miss the warm fuzzies waiting in the full summary! 🫂🧡

Group Hugs and Heart Emojis 💞

Hey! So, AK dropped a sweet little post that just oozes warmth and good vibes. They posted a big ol' hug and an orange heart emoji — just what we need to sprinkle some love around! 🫂🧡

Not much chatter here, but it's like an open invite for everyone to feel the love! Perfect chance for you to join in and maybe give some reaction love? Emojis just make everything better!

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@ 03742c20:2df9aa5d

Relay ตัวนี้มีให้ตั้งค่ากรอง pow และ wot ด้วย หรือใครจะใช้เป็น Private relay ก็ทำได้เช่นกัน

วิธีติดตั้ง nostr-relay-nestjs มี 2 วิธี

ติดตั้งแบบลงเครื่องโดยตรง

ก่อนจะลง nostr-relay-nestjs ควรติดตั้ง Nodejs, pm2 และ postgresql sudo apt update ติดตั้ง nodejs curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt install -y nodejs ติดตั้ง npm sudo apt install npm ติดตั้ง pm2 sudo npm install pm2 -g ติดตั้ง postgresql สร้าง docker-compose.yml ``` version: '3.8'

services: postgres: image: postgres:latest container_name: postgres environment: POSTGRES_DB: [db_name] POSTGRES_USER: [user] POSTGRES_PASSWORD: [password] volumes: - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data ports: - "5432:5432" restart: unless-stopped

pgadmin: image: dpage/pgadmin4:latest container_name: pgadmin environment: PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL: [E-mail] PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD: [password] ports: - "5050:80" depends_on: - postgres restart: unless-stopped

volumes: postgres_data: docker compose up -d เรามาเริ่มลง nostr-relay-nestjs กันเถอะ git clone https://github.com/CodyTseng/nostr-relay-nestjs.git ```

cd nostr-relay-nestjs

npm install

cp example.env .env แก้ไข้ไฟล์ .env ``` DATABASE_URL=postgresql://[username]:[password]@[host]:[port]/[db_name] . . RELAY_NAME=nostr-relay-nestjs

RELAY_DESCRIPTION=A Nostr relay with a clear architecture and high test coverage

RELAY_PUBKEY=[your_pubkey_hex] สร้างรูปแบบ nostr event การเก็บข้อมูลใน Postgresql npm run migration:run Deployg ขึ้น pm2 pm2 start ./dist/src/main.js ```

ติดตั้งโดยใช้ Docker

อยากลืมติดตั้ง postgresql ก่อน ./scripts/build.sh แก้ไข้ไฟล์ .env ``` DATABASE_URL=postgresql://[username]:[password]@[host]:[port]/[db_name] . . RELAY_NAME=nostr-relay-nestjs

RELAY_DESCRIPTION=A Nostr relay with a clear architecture and high test coverage

RELAY_PUBKEY=[your_pubkey_hex] ```

./scripts/run.sh เช็คว่ารีเลย์ถูกรันขึ้นยัง curl localhost:3000 ถ้าทำงานผลลัพธ์ที่ได้

Please use a Nostr client to connect. Powered by nostr-relay-nestjs. version: 2.2.0 (undefined)

ตั้งค่า proxy ใน nginx server{ server_name relay.yourdomain.com; location / { proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000; proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade"; } } หรือใช้ CloudFlare tunnel

ไปลองทำตามกันได้เลือกวิธีที่ตัวเองถนัดได้เลย แล้วเจอกันใหม่ครั้งหน้า จะเป็นเรื่องอะไรรอติดตามกัน

Siamstr #Nostr

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Table Of Content

• The Race for Spot Bitcoin ETFs

• SEC's Stance

• Coinbase Role: A Significant Surveillance Partner

• Legal Challenges: SEC's Lawsuit Against Coinbase

• Looking Ahead: The Future of Bitcoin ETFs

• Conclusion

• FAQ

In a significant development in the cryptocurrency world, Coinbase, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges, has been named as the surveillance partner for Fidelity and other Bitcoin ETFs. This announcement came as part of a broader move by Cboe's BZX Exchange, which refiled its applications for spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for several potential issuers. This move is seen as a strategic step towards ensuring regulatory compliance and enhancing the transparency of Bitcoin trading.

The Race for Spot Bitcoin ETFs

In recent weeks, several prominent companies, including Fidelity, WisdomTree, VanEck, ARK Invest, Galaxy/Invesco, and BlackRock, have filed for spot bitcoin ETFs. These companies are aiming to launch a product that has been a point of contention with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for years. While BlackRock has chosen to file its application with Nasdaq, the other companies have opted to collaborate with Cboe, indicating a diverse approach to achieving the same goal.

SEC's Stance

The SEC had previously communicated to both Nasdaq and Cboe that their applications were "inadequate" due to a lack of clarity about the market that the fund sponsors are working with on their surveillance-sharing agreements. These agreements are seen as a critical tool in preventing market manipulation and protecting consumers. The absence of these agreements has been a significant factor in the SEC's previous rejections of bitcoin ETF applications, highlighting the importance of this aspect in gaining regulatory approval.

Coinbase Role: A Significant Surveillance Partner

In response to the SEC's concerns, Cboe has named Coinbase as its partner for these surveillance-sharing agreements in its refiled applications. Cboe's decision is based on the fact that Coinbase's platform "represents a substantial portion of U.S.-based and USD denominated Bitcoin trading." This makes Coinbase a suitable partner for these agreements, given its extensive reach and influence in the Bitcoin trading market.

Legal Challenges: SEC's Lawsuit Against Coinbase

The SEC's stance on these applications may be complicated by its recent legal action against Coinbase. The SEC sued Coinbase earlier this month on allegations of operating an unregistered securities exchange, broker, and clearinghouse. However, it's important to note that the SEC does not allege that Bitcoin itself is a security. In fact, SEC Chair Gary Gensler often refers to Bitcoin as an example of a digital asset that is not a security, indicating a nuanced view of the cryptocurrency market.

Looking Ahead: The Future of Bitcoin ETFs

As the situation unfolds, it remains to be seen whether the SEC will agree that Coinbase is a significant, regulated market for Bitcoin. This development marks a significant step in the ongoing efforts to launch a spot Bitcoin ETF, a product that has been elusive due to regulatory concerns. The cryptocurrency world will be watching closely as these applications progress, with the hope that a successful Bitcoin ETF could pave the way for broader acceptance and integration of cryptocurrencies into the mainstream financial system.

Conclusion

The partnership between Coinbase and Fidelity, along with other Bitcoin ETFs, marks a pivotal moment in the cryptocurrency industry. Despite challenges, including the recent lawsuit against Coinbase by the SEC, this development represents a significant step towards integrating cryptocurrencies into the mainstream financial system. The outcome could set important precedents for the future of Bitcoin ETFs and other digital assets, signaling a maturing and evolving cryptocurrency market that continues to strive for regulatory compliance and consumer protection.

FAQ

What is the recent development between Coinbase and Fidelity? Coinbase has been named as the surveillance partner for Fidelity and other Bitcoin ETFs by Cboe's BZX Exchange.

Why are surveillance-sharing agreements important? Surveillance-sharing agreements are crucial for preventing market manipulation and protecting consumers, which are key concerns of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

What companies have recently filed for spot Bitcoin ETFs? Companies such as Fidelity, WisdomTree, VanEck, ARK Invest, Galaxy/Invesco, and BlackRock have filed for spot Bitcoin ETFs.

What is the significance of Coinbase being named as a surveillance partner? Coinbase's platform represents a substantial portion of U.S.-based and USD-denominated Bitcoin trading, making it a suitable partner for these agreements.

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Over the last four years bitcoin has, among other things, established itself as an incredible corporate treasury asset that benefits those who adopt it as such. Microstrategy is the shining example of this theme going from a company that was hovering barely above a ~$1B market cap in mid-2020 to a ~$40B market cap company holding more than 1% of the 21,000,000 bitcoin that will ever exist. Microstrategy's success has emboldened a number of other publicly trader companies to follow suit. Bitcoin as a corporate treasury asset is well on its way to becoming a standard. If you run a business that doesn't hold bitcoin on its balance sheet you are doing yourself, your customers and your shareholders a disservice.

This is a trend that has its legs under it and will accelerate moving forward. A trend that I believe will emerge this cycle is incorporating bitcoin into real estate markets. Leon Wankum has been beating the drum about this for the last few years and I had the pleasure of sitting down with him this morning to record an episode of TFTC that will be published tomorrow morning. Leon is a real estate developer in Germany and he has made it his mission to educate and warn others in real estate about the demonetization of real estate that is under way due to the fact that bitcoin exists and it provides a far superior alternative.

These are pretty stark numbers. Nothing highlights the superior monetary properties of bitcoin better than looking at a chart of the average price of a home priced in USD v. bitcoin.

Since 2016: +46% in USD -99% in BTC

Since 2020: +34% in USD -70% in BTC

The funny thing is that an overwhelming majority of the individuals who make their living in real estate markets do not understand that this is happening to them. Many think they are doing exceptionally well all things considered. Sure, there may be a bit of a slow down and price retraction due to a couple of years of relatively elevated interest rates, but don't worry! The Fed is lowering rates again and the good times are about to start back up. Nothing could be further from the truth. This trend is going to continue unabated until bitcoin is fully monetized and those is the real estate industry, particularly real estate developers and those who lend capital to developers, should seriously take the time to understand what is happening to them.

Real estate is the largest store of value asset in the world at the moment. The most common number that is thrown around for the total size of the market is $300 TRILLION. $300 TRILLION of wealth being stored in an asset that is illiquid, comes with maintenance costs, taxes, insurance premiums, and susceptible to extreme weather event, among other things. Compared to bitcoin - which is extremely liquid, saleable, divisible and hard to confiscate, real estate is a far superior asset to store your wealth in. This is something that I'm sure is well understood by many of you reading this letter.

What's less understood is the dynamics of the real estate development market over the last few years, which have been severely hindered by elevated interest rates. The higher interest rate environment coupled with the inflationary pressures that forced rates higher in the first place have put developers in a predicament; they have a higher cost of capital to start new projects with raw material prices that are still much higher than they were before the economic lock downs of 2020-2022. This has led to a scenario where it isn't advantageous to start new projects and the projects that broke ground in 2021-2023 are finding that they need to incur more debt to get their developments across the finish line.

Despite the fact that interest rates are on their way back down, it doesn't seem like the economics of these projects are going to materially improve in the short to medium-term as headline inflation begins to creep back up. Couple this with the fact that the jobs market is cratering while real wages struggle to keep up with inflation and many builders are going to find themselves in a situation where they do actually complete a development problem but their cash flow suffers because their customers can't afford the inflated rents that builders will have to charge to get a return on their outlaid capital. Many will be put in a situation where they are forced to be happy with lower rents (cash flow) or sit on the sidelines making no cash flow.

The post-1971 era that brought with it a booming real estate industry is suffering the same fate as the bond market; the generation bull market is over. Real estate prices may go up, but that will be nothing more than a mirage of wealth creation. The unit of account those prices are built on is in dollars, which are being debased at an accelerating rate. Developers, banks and borrowers need to de-risk their real estate exposure and, as Leon points out, bitcoin is the only way to do this in an effective way.

Moving forward developers will have to finance by dual collateralizing their debt with the real estate and bitcoin. In the graphic below Leon illustrates what this type of financing structure will look like. Instead of taking $10m of debt to finance a project and putting it all into materials, construction and marketing, a developer will take out a $10m loan, put $1m in bitcoin and the rest toward the development project. Over the course of the construction of the real estate project, bitcoin will sit in the credit structure and, if held for 4+ years, should increase significantly in value. Saving the builder from risk of default and providing him some optionality in terms of what he can do with the project once it's finished.

In this scenario downside risk is contained - a developer isn't pouring all of the cash into bitcoin at the beginning so the worst case scenario is that bitcoin goes to zero (highly unlikely) and they can eat the small loss and hope to make up with it via cash flows once a project is finished, while upside potential is enormous. Bitcoin is still monetizing and having exposure to the hardest monetary asset the world has ever while it's monetizing has proven to be massively beneficial.

We are still in the early days of bitcoin and this idea will likely seem absolutely insane to most Tradfi investors, but I strongly believe that developers, banks and end consumers who don't leverage this type of bitcoin structured credit will be cooked in the long-run. And those that take advantage of this type of structure first will be considered geniuses in 20 years.

There are many more nuanced benefits to this strategy; holding bitcoin allows landlords and management companies to weather ongoing maintenance costs throughout the years, those who take out mortgages dual collateralized with a house and bitcoin not only protect the equity value of their property but could see their equity values increase significantly more than others using vanilla mortgages, and builders who accumulate bitcoin in their treasuries will be able to use better raw materials when building, which leads to more valuable properties that cash flow for longer.

Again, it's going to take time for these types of structures to become commonplace in the market, but I firmly believe this cycle will be the cycle that these strategies get off the ground. In four to five years they will have a track record and after that it will be considered irresponsible not to finance real estate in this way. The banks will begin to demand it.

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Bitcoin emerged as a promise of financial freedom, challenging the traditional and centralized structures of governments and financial institutions. Since its inception, many enthusiasts have believed in the revolutionary potential of this cryptocurrency. However, over the years, challenges have arisen that have tested this promise, especially concerning centralization, the implementation of secondary layers like the Lightning Network, and issues of governance and privacy.

https://www.fountain.fm/episode/SDZYaFMyLEO1krL6x8RD

Centralization and the Exclusivity of Nostr

Nostr, a decentralized network aiming to be censorship resistant, emerged as an attempt to solve some inherent problems of centralization. However, it faces significant challenges. Many users point out that, despite its promise, Nostr is still not attractive to the general public, being exclusive to a specific niche.

Additionally, issues of centralization still permeate the network. Discussions on GitHub revealed that developers chose not to implement an absolute level of privacy, a decision many considered inadequate. Even with protocols developed to ensure total privacy—such as the non-identification of IPs and communicating parties—the network still lacks this robust implementation.

Individual Freedom and Data Protection

A recurring issue is the importance of demonstrating that real options exist for citizens to protect and preserve their freedom. In a world where most discussions about Bitcoin revolve around its use as an investment asset, there is an urgent need to emphasize its potential as a tool for financial freedom.

The Bitcoin community should focus on development and education, showing that the conscious use of cryptography and decentralized transactions can protect individuals against excessive government surveillance and control. Secure and private communication is fundamental, and Bitcoin, along with privacy technologies, can provide this.

Hyperbitcoinization and the Illusion of Store of Value

Hyperbitcoinization is a concept that refers to the moment when Bitcoin will replace fiat currencies worldwide. However, achieving this state is not simple, especially when Bitcoin is seen primarily as a store of value. Since 2017, this narrative has gained strength, promoting the idea that accumulating Bitcoin will lead to automatic wealth.

However, this perspective is limited. The true value of Bitcoin lies in its use as a transactional currency, not just in its scarcity. The community must work to ensure that Bitcoin is utilized in everyday transactions, strengthening its network and demonstrating its real value.

The Role of the Community in Bitcoin's Development

Bitcoin's strength comes from its community. Developers, users, and enthusiasts, through their actions and support, make Bitcoin a powerful tool. This community is responsible for ensuring that Bitcoin maintains its essence and that its functionalities are accessible to all.

It is crucial that this support network continues promoting the decentralized use of Bitcoin, without intermediaries that can censor or control transactions. Adopting Bitcoin in a centralized manner, through banks or other institutions, contradicts its original proposal and strengthens those who have historically opposed its existence.

Sidechains, Second Layers, and the Lightning Network

Sidechains and second layers, like the Lightning Network, are essential components for Bitcoin's scalability. However, they bring challenges, especially regarding the need to trust intermediaries. For these solutions to be effective, it is fundamental that they allow the unilateral withdrawal of funds, ensuring that users maintain full control over their assets.

The Lightning Network, for example, is a second layer that allows fast and cheap transactions. However, many users face difficulties when dealing with channels that do not close correctly, resulting in locked funds. These problems must be solved for the network to be truly decentralized and functional.

The Fight Against Centralization on the Internet

Centralization is not a problem exclusive to Bitcoin. The internet as a whole faces similar challenges, with data control concentrated in the hands of a few large technology companies. To ensure freedom of expression and online privacy, it is necessary to decentralize these data clusters.

Projects that seek to decentralize the internet are vital for this mission. They not only complement Bitcoin in its quest for financial freedom but also ensure that digital communication and expression are protected against censorship and corporate control.

The Future of Bitcoin and the Need for Action

The future of Bitcoin depends on the community's action. We cannot expect Bitcoin to automatically become a global medium of exchange. A conscious effort is necessary to build an ecosystem where Bitcoin can flow freely, being used in everyday transactions and valued for its utility.

Moreover, with the imminent arrival of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), time is of the essence. CBDCs represent a significant challenge, as they can further restrict individuals' financial freedom. Therefore, accelerating Bitcoin adoption and ensuring it maintains its decentralized and uncensorable properties is a priority.

Conclusion

Bitcoin remains a powerful tool for financial freedom but faces significant challenges. Centralization, both in the context of secondary networks and the internet in general, poses a threat to its original proposal. However, with the joint action of the community and the continuous development of decentralized solutions, it is possible to maintain Bitcoin as a bastion of individual freedom.

The true revolution of Bitcoin lies in its use as a medium of exchange, not just as a store of value. To achieve hyperbitcoinization, it is necessary to build a robust ecosystem where Bitcoin can circulate freely and be accessible to all. Only then can we fulfill Bitcoin's initial promise and ensure it continues to be a tool for freedom and financial autonomy.

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this is in response to Shinobis recent piece occupy bitcoin found here

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/occupy-bitcoin-bitcoin-is-not-just-libertarian?new

Occupy bitcoin is a thing every single one of us tries to do. There isn't a single one individual that doesn’t see bitcoin for what it is and have it not occupy all of them to varying degrees. There’s an innate fascination with coming upon previously unknown knowledge and become overtly obsessed with it and exploring all of the facets in which the new knowledge can be applied. When one does so, it normally can lead to finding previously unknown areas that you come to find with the more that you learn you find out just how much you truly don’t understand.

Now with this being the foundation of what all of humans are doing. None of us, not ONE, know everything. Its a fallacious argument to claim to do. In the journey for the discovery that is truth one can happen to fall upon the political rabbit hole that can be called or dubbed Libertarianism/Anarchism/ AnCap/AnCom etc. I use these labels very lightly as they are just words at the end of the day words mean different things to different people. I cant know what these words mean to you dear reader but I can only know what they mean to me, and my journey specifically. What we as humans do is to come to an agreement upon to what does these words mean to the both of us when we are communicating them to each other. I do my best to not fall into being pigeon holed into believing or having to defend that when I say one of the aforementioned words that I should have to commit to whatever it is your preconceived understanding of what that is. We must remember that these words are collectivized terms, they are strictly USEFUL fictions that we humans use in order to better conceptualize the ideas to better understand. That to take any attribute pulled from any one of the above and blanket paint “some” or “most” individuals that claim to align with above ideologies/alignments/political beliefs that these individuals represent that is an absurd claim. One cannot claim that individuals acting in mean/harsh ways when facing others who don’t agree with them is the wrong way to act.

We are humans we disagree, were free to act as we please to anyone we wish to do so. We’re NEVER free to ignore the consequences of those actions. One could characterize the vehement disdain for the acceptance all ideas, and letting others have their own opinions, is how we as individuals got here in the first place. It was the ideas of society being more important than the whole that had legitimized the aggression sanctified by the state as an omnipotent entity free from doing no wrong in lieu of the greater good. Individuals can do as such with their minds as they please but your actions of freedom stop at the point of my nose begins. The individuals that understand freedom and its core philosophy understand this. Treating one side as an evil and the other side as some glorified good is a cop out of intellectual dishonesty.

In the realm of bitcoin there can be disagreements and even out right hostility towards any number of ideas/opinions. This is the nature of freedom itself. As I’ve seen it and as I have championed it myself do with freedom what you will, but whatever you do if I think its stupid I’m going to tell you its stupid. Social pressures have been with human civilizations for thousands of years to think that the idea of attacks to your ideas not being a thing because we should accept all ideas and be kind to differing opinions is a farce at best and some unicorn fart huffing at worst. It was the individuals that were unwavering IN SPITE of the social attacks, the public slandering, the outright social ostracization, the being called dumb and stupid that paved the way for the best and most historical moments in history Ideas don’t care about these passing affronts. If your viewpoint/idea needs soft corners to gain traction then maybe you should reassess your idea in the first place. The battleground that is the societal/accepted norm isn't one that’s for the faint of heart. Everyone has limited time and resources available to them if they are choosing not to hear you then its probably time to seek out others to speak to. In the realm of freedom everyone CAN choose any ideas they wish to follow and interact with others that agree, where that stops is you can NO LONGER force everyone else to participate in your own shared delusions with the others you associate with. The freedom to EXCLUDE is one of the core tenets of freedom principles. We DO NOT have to be accepting of everyone if we do not wish to do so, the belief that everyone should ALWAYS accept everyone and everything is a communistic one. No one individual has the time and resources to accept every person and accept or contemplate every single idea presented to him. What freedom DOES allow for is for YOU to find the individuals that ARE accepting of your views/beliefs and do with that what you wish.

By trying to call out one group of individuals as being too “tribal” in what they view as the best course of action for themselves while SIMULTANEOUSLY praising another group for their favored tenets of “acceptance” is a laughable and down right sad view that “everyone should be more like the accepting crowd”. It is only through the choices we make that we get to where we are going on this journey. Those choices are inherently going to REQUIRE dissociation, omission, & exclusion.

The ideologies/beliefs mentioned at the beginning of this article are only a starting point to the journey. They are in no way shape or from a claim to be a complete set of knowledge's that allow everyone to be able to navigate this earth. Are some things flawed? Probably. Do some things work for some and not others? Absolutely. But the major core belief at all of them is the belief that violence is never permitted, in all its facets to the individual liberty of the person. Its the only morally justifiable way to navigate life. This is in and of itself the most open and accepting philosophy of all life choices.

Individuals can do with their lives as they please, nobody is stopping you from doing that, but you because someone said some mean things to me about what I believe. Its about time some individuals get that we must remain steadfast in our mission. We don’t get there by being nice to everyone. We only get there by allowing everyone to do what they wish and not expecting others to bend to our will because you hurt my feelings.

The ultimate arbiter for what you should pick and choose is you the individual, don’t let others decide that for you. Don’t be a passenger in your own life, take that wheel and choose for yourself where you are headed. But if you're going to let someone who was mean to you stop you from using probably the greatest tool that a human has ever invented, then maybe there isn't hope for humanity after all. The one thing that I know for sure is that there is one thing that that can hinder you or augment you, that thing is choice. Embrace it.

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🧠Quote(s) of the week:

'Bitcoin completed the stack. Which is why you should probably stack Bitcoin.'- Anilsaidso

🧡Bitcoin news🧡

On the 8th of October:

➡️The US Supreme Court has declined to review an appeal over the ownership of 69,370 Bitcoin seized from Silk Road, allowing the government to sell them. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a case concerning the ownership of 69,370 Bitcoin, worth $4.38 billion, seized by the government from the Silk Road marketplace. Battle Born Investments, which claimed rights to Bitcoin through a bankruptcy estate, had its appeal rejected after failing to convince lower courts of its claim. This decision clears the way for the U.S. government to sell the Bitcoin. Sources: Cointelegraph

A smart move by the U.S. government. They are poised to sell the only truly limited-supply store of value asset in the world for something it can and will just print more out of thin air itself. Logic, innit?!

➡️'YTD returns:

S&P500: +20.3%

Gold: +27.8%

Bitcoin: +48.2%

But if you only looked at Twitter, you’d think Bitcoin was performing the worst. It’s doing just fine. People are impatient and greedy.' - Bitcoin Isaiah

➡️Bitcoin rewards app Fold has filed an S-4 SEC IPO filing ahead of its planned merger with FTAC Emerald Acquisition.

If approved, Fold will be publicly listed on Nasdaq as "FLD."  - Bitcoin News

➡️MicroStrategy holds more Bitcoin than the US government. Matter of fact, MicroStrategy is the world’s first Bitcoin Development Company.

'It holds ₿252,220 on its balance sheet and did $2.5bn in volume today. JP Morgan is America’s largest bank. It has almost $4 trillion of fiat assets on its balance sheet, and yet today it did just $1.5bn in volume. This is only 60% of MSTR’s trade. Saylor did more volume today than JPM and Coinbase (America’s largest crypto exchange) combined. Let that sink in. MicroStrategy is beginning to make Wall Street’s biggest names look small.' - Bit Strategy

No S&P 500 company has outperformed MicroStrategy since they began stacking Bitcoin. MicroStrategy owns 252,000 Bitcoin.

Only 83 entities in the ENTIRE WORLD can own 252,000 Bitcoin. This means MSTR has achieved something only 82 other individuals, institutions, countries, etc. can achieve.

On the 9th of October:

➡️German parliament member Joana Cotar says "With the right Bitcoin strategy you have the potential to transform a nation."  Inflation is "stealing money from the people every month, Bitcoin is going to fix this"

On the 10th of October:

➡️On this day the Bitcoin Conference Amsterdam started. I only will share the most important bit of the whole conference, fellow Noderunner & Suriname Presidential candidate Maya Parbhoe: Suriname will be the next Bitcoin country!

I hope she will make it. She is a class act and with her determination, and passion for the people, but foremost her vision. I have no doubt she will lead the way and let Suriname thrive. How I love being part of the Noderunners group. The cult within the CULT!

➡️$9.57 trillion Charles Schwab survey shows almost half of its respondents plan to invest in Bitcoin and crypto ETFs

➡️'Ireland's Crime Bureau can't get access to drug dealer's $378m Bitcoin it "seized" in 2020. It has since gone up in value from $56m to $378. Not your keys, not your ₿itcoin!' -Bitcoin Archive

➡️'The SEC is suing Cumberland DRW, one of the largest crypto market makers, for selling assets like Solana as securities without registering as a securities dealer.' -Bitcoin News

1.5M BTC has been accumulated by whales (with >1K BTC on balance) over the last 6 months. There's really nothing to discuss here. What have you done over the last 6 months? Source

On the 11th of October:

➡️TD Bank has pleaded guilty and been hit with a record $3 billion fine for enabling drug cartel money laundering. Bank employees accepted bribes and overlooked blatant criminal activity by customers from Colombia and other regions. Criminals prefer US Dollars. Bitcoin is an open, transparent monetary network. I thought money laundering only happened in crypto… Will never cease to amaze me that these giga-settlements in tradfi happen, barely make news, and Elizabeth Warren in the US or Paul Tang here in Europe doesn't call for all banking to be shut down because of how its medium of choice for money launderers. Fascinating, innit?

➡️Metaplanet has purchased an additional ~108.99 Bitcoin for ¥1 billion at an average price of  ¥9,174,396 per Bitcoin. As of October 11, Metaplanet holds ~748.50 Bitcoin acquired for ¥6.965 billion at an average price of ¥9,304,655 per Bitcoin.

➡️Global Money Supply hits an all-time high of $107 Trillion. It’s just a matter of time until Bitcoin follows. Two weeks ago I shared a great article by Lyn Alden on this topic. You might want to read that.

➡️Mt. Gox trustee postpones deadline to repay creditors by one year to October 2025, reducing sell pressure concerns for Bitcoin.

On the 12th of October:

➡️El Salvador buys back $940 million of its outstanding debt to reduce its debt burden and take advantage of favorable market conditions. The future of El Salvador is debt-free The IMF is in despair.

On the 13th of October:

Lyn Alden: Sometimes I make an asset class return chart specifically to show how poorly bonds performed over the past 5 years or whatever random timeframe, and instead it just accidentally shows how dramatically bitcoin outperformed everything.

➡️ Bitcoin on exchanges just hit a 5-year low. However, there are still 2.5M Bitcoins that need to be withdrawn!

On the 14th of October: ➡️I will end this Bitcoin segment with some quotes from Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO on Bitcoin. "We believe Bitcoin is an asset class in itself." "We're having conversations with institutions worldwide about allocations." "Bitcoin will become as big as the US housing market" -- Larry Fink. That market, the housing market, is currently 50 Trillion. Let's estimate 100 Trillion by 2040. That is 76x Bitcoin's 1.3 Trillion market cap. In other words, Bitcoin is going to $ 5 Million. Source: the most important person in finance on planet earth.

💸Traditional Finance / Macro:

On the 11th of October:

👉🏽'The S&P 500 is now up over 22% this year, marking the best year-to-date performance in 24 years.

This is already DOUBLE the average annual return since 1957. In one year, the index has added a whopping $13 trillion in market cap. If the current pace of the market rally continues, the S&P 500 is on track to record a 30.0% gain in 2024, the largest annual gain since 1997. That also would mark the third-largest annual return since 1975, when the S&P 500 finished the year up 37.2%.' -TKL

🏦Banks:

On the 2nd of October:

👉🏽no news

🌎Macro/Geopolitics:

On the 8th of October:

👉🏽The Tax Foundation analyzed the Kamala Harris Tax Plan and concluded that it would result in the loss of approximately 800K full-time jobs, a long-run wage decline of 1.2%, and a long-run GDP of negative 2%. Source: https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/kamala-harris-tax-plan-2024/

'For the sake of completeness, the Tax Foundation is not blatantly partisan but its leaning is conservative and center-right. Still by its own findings Trump's economic plans would result in 684K job losses and 0.8% loss of GDP. Most estimates coming from other places are less favorable to Trump.'

Left, right...this is a feature of a system that requires billions of dollars in debt service.

👉🏽Hong Kong's Hang Seng index just crashed 9.4% today, posting its largest drop since 2008 and 2nd largest drop since 2000. Over the last 3 weeks, China's stock market was up nearly 30% on stimulus announcements.

The full thread you can find here: https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1843630549379981400

👉🏽Despite strong headline growth in GDP figures several people are struggling and working multiple jobs just to pay bills. Millions of Americans are working multiple jobs to afford basic necessities. 'The number of people working MULTIPLE jobs in the US hit 8.66 million in September, a new record. This is ~300,000 above the peak seen before the pandemic and ~600,000 above the 2008 peak. Furthermore, the number of part-time jobs has jumped by ~3 million over the last 3 years to a near-record 28.2 million. Concerningly, full-time employment has declined by 1 million since November 2023. Multiple jobholders have been rapidly rising over the last few years as Americans are fighting record-high prices.' -TKL

👉🏽 Without a fiscal union the Euro is shaky and makes little sense long term. But no country will give up its sovereignty to make a fiscal union. Especially not the rich/successful countries. The EU and Euro are failed projects. 'All currency unions in history based on common monetary policy only failed and disappeared. The Euro can only survive long-term if there was common fiscal policy, given political landscape in Europe it’s close to impossible.' -Michael A Arouet

It comes down to the question - are Northern countries (e.g. DE and NL) willing to pay for early retirement in France, or low tax morale in Italy?... We all know the answer.

Anyway... socialism will never work though.

👉🏽In 2023 the wealth tax increase in Norway was expected to bring an additional $146M in yearly tax revenue.

Instead, individuals worth $54B left the country, leading to a loss of $594M in yearly wealth tax revenue. A net decrease of $448M+. Capital moves where it's treated best. And so do people. That is because rich people don't pay taxes.

The same thing happened in France when socialists increased the wealth tax in 2012. The most successful simply left.' -Michael A. Arouet

Just to show how bad things are in France. Within 15 years debt/GDP almost doubled. France is running a 6% fiscal deficit during good times despite the highest tax burden in Europe.

Without deep structural reforms, it will sooner or later face a debt crisis. Great article by the economist: https://archive.ph/qrWcT

France stares into a “colossal” budgetary abyss. A fragile new government must try to plug the hole.

On the 9th of October:

👉🏽The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) just released the estimated 2024 federal budget results. Adjusting for weekend payments, the actual 2024 expenses totaled $6.8T for a deficit of $ 1.83T. This is a ~12% deficit increase from 2023. The US deficit reached $1.83 trillion in Fiscal Year 2024, or 6.4% of GDP, the largest deficit since 2021.

According to CBO data released Tuesday, this is $139 billion higher than in FY 2023 and ~$400 billion above FY 2022 levels. This comes as government spending increased 10% year-over-year to $6.8 trillion. The largest outlays were Social Security, debt interest payments, and Medicare at $1.5 trillion, $950 billion, and $869 billion, respectively. Meanwhile, federal debt is up $2.2 trillion over the last year and hit a record $35.7 trillion this week. US deficit spending remains at crisis levels.

On the 10th of October:

👉🏽The Fed's worst nightmare has begun:

1. Core CPI inflation rises to 3.3%, the first increase since March 2023
2. 258,000 people filed for unemployment this week, above expectations of 230,000. That is the highest reading in 16 months. Once the September jobs report is revised sharply lower (as usually in 2023/2024), it will reveal the Fed's nightmare situation. Rising inflation with rising unemployment. No bueno.

👉🏽Trump is leading Kamala by 9.4% on Polymarket, the widest gap since Biden dropped out.

Trump is even leading in Wisconsin and Michigan.

👉🏽China's Central Bank launches $70 BILLION funding program to stimulate the economy and capital market: • Cut reserve req ratio, releasing ~1 trillion yuan • Lowered key interest rates • Reduced mortgage rates • Issued 1 trillion yuan in special sovereign bonds • 100B Yuan govt investment • Child subsidies for families By cutting the reserve requirement ratio and lowering interest rates, the government aims to boost liquidity and consumer confidence.

On the 11th of October:

👉🏽September PPI inflation RISES to 1.8%, above expectations of 1.6%. (first time since June), and last month's PPI inflation number was revised higher. Both Core PPI and CPI inflation are now officially back on the rise.

On the 12th of October:

👉🏽'The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet declined by $66 billion in September to $7.05 trillion, the lowest since September 2020.

Since April 2022, the Fed has shrunk its portfolio of assets by $1.92 trillion. This is 40% of the $4.80 trillion the central bank bought during the 2020-2022 pandemic response. For the first time in history, the Fed is simultaneously reducing its balance sheet and cutting rates. At the September Fed meeting, Fed Chair Powell emphasized that balance sheet reductions will continue.' -TKL

Great news! Meanwhile, though, the US money supply hit $21.17 trillion in August, the highest level since January 2023.

This also marks a fifth consecutive monthly increase in the US money supply. Over the last 10 months, the amount of US Dollars in circulation has jumped by a MASSIVE $484 billion.

In effect, the money supply is now just $548 billion below a new all-time high. After a brief decline, the quantity of money in the financial system is surging again raising concerns about another inflation wave.

🎁If you have made it this far I would like to give you a little gift:

Great interview with David Zell:

THE SEPARATION OF MONEY & STATE Peter McCormack & David Zell discuss the political landscape surrounding Bitcoin & its role as an insurance policy for individuals & nation-states:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y39I7iQUL6U

Credit: I have used multiple sources!

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I was at a yoga teacher training 14 years ago during which the topic of positive thinking came up. A few different women (it was almost all women) spoke about how much “positive thinking” had affected their lives for the better. When they were done, I raised my hand and said something to the effect of:

“You know there were six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, and the one percent most positive-thinking among them were 60,000, and it didn’t help them much. Even the one percent of the one percent most positive who must have been very very positive, were 600, and they too got murdered alongside everyone they knew.”

I don’t remember what if anything anyone said after that, only that it pretty much killed the “kumbaya” vibe they had been cultivating, which I guess was my aim, since it always struck me as phony.

. . .

I was talking to a friend last week about a book I was reading, called “Becoming Supernatural.” It’s a bit “self-helpy” for my tastes, but the author makes some interesting arguments. Essentially that matter is mostly empty space because atoms are mostly space (the nucleus, which has virtually all the mass, is tiny compared to the entire atom.) Everything is space, or more precisely electromagnetic fields, and the subatomic particles inside the matter are actually just waves until they are observed. “Reality” is mostly just waves which we solidify by observation, and the same is true for our internal reality.

When we’re in a contemplative state, just observing, not identifying or planning, it’s like we’re an unobserved wave, and it’s only when we snap back to “reality” of “I’m a man,” “I’m a woman” or “I’ve got a boring meeting at 10 am” that we re-particle-ize, so to speak. That you are in a state of possibility (wave) when meditating, and you are the particle when you identify with the specifics of yourself or your life.

And so you wind up with an identity that’s full of beliefs about yourself, your plans and your history, and those notions solidify themselves in your body in terms of stress, tension, etc. via biochemistry, and that biochemistry feeds your thoughts which in turn feed more biochemistry, and you become habituated to your patterns, your history, your identity and cut yourself off from new choices and possibilities. As I said, a bit self-helpy for me (and maybe I’m missing something in my paraphrasing), but an interesting way to conceptualize it.

So I’m talking to my friend about this idea of creating your own experience, so to speak, by not, for example, imagining how my run at the track will go like I normally would but simply committing to it, but without a picture, story or expectation. You just walk out the door, a couple blocks to the subway, observe the people, the cobblestones, etc. And I don’t mean imagining doing that as I am now while typing this, but each step as it’s happening. And in this way you create a different experience than the habitual one where you’re dreading the run and strategizing how to make its prospect less painful.

And he agreed that maybe we can create our own experience. Of course, that was when I told him the story of the yoga class and the 600 super positive Jews on their way to the gas chamber.

And he said, “Maybe the positive ones had already left.”

. . .

Growing up Jewish in New York, I was exposed to the sentiment that Holocaust 2.0 was maybe not imminent but surely something about which I should be worried. We weren’t religious, and I never experienced any kind of antisemitism (I’ve seen and heard some lately on social media and even in real life on occasion, but nothing that’s affected my life in any way.) And I always rejected that idea that I should be specifically worried about it.

But — and I can’t say if the Holocaust paranoia drove this — I’ve always thought about the people that died not just in the Holocaust, but also in wars or even via violence on the street. So many humans in history have met their ends in gruesome ways, in prison, in the gutter or at the hands of others. I’ve always had this sense that it could easily be me or my family as there was no basis for believing it couldn’t be so.

I had only a small taste of violence growing up, getting mugged, punched in the face on the street a couple times, chased by a gang with sticks and bats. I never got seriously injured, and in fact no one I know did, either, but there was a sense of menace back then that it could happen.

On the one hand, you could say if it happens it happens, and hopefully it doesn’t come to that, and let it go, but it raises the question of how much one should prepare, at what point should you leave. If the positive thinking Jews (and by positive thinking I don’t mean being in denial about what was going on in Germany, but in the sense of willing themselves a good life for which leaving was necessary) left, maybe my mental model was wrong, and those girls in my yoga class, naive though they might have been, were onto something.

Instead of seeing oneself as a statistic, at the mercy of probability given a shifting (often for the worse) environment, a wave waiting for the events of life to particle-ize oneself, so to speak, into the lottery of history, one might imagine a form of higher agency. Unlike ordinary agency which is the power to respond to one’s environment, maybe one creates it, whether via default (lottery of history) or by choice.

This has profound implications because it makes you not only responsible for how you act upon the world but also for how the world acts upon you. There is nothing to fear from what might happen because you yourself created the conditions, consciously or by default. And while there might be great suffering, real horrors and unspeakable cruelty, those episodes are all mutually brought into being.

Obviously that is not to say that there are no moral distinctions, that the Jews who went to the gas chamber were as responsible as the nazis who forced them. The default — letting the lottery of history play out — still involves ordinary agency and the responsibilities inherent to it. One has merely opted into ordinary agency (and its probability distribution) by not discovering the means of reality production at its root. And because most people are neither exposed to this possibility nor encouraged to seek it, they experience only the default. (And some even less than that as society encourages helplessness and increasingly confers status on those it deems victims, but that’s a topic for another essay.)

. . .

I don’t want to go too far afield trying to explain or describe what creating one’s own reality consists in or how one might go about it. I am no expert in this, and I’m not even positive it can be done in the sense I’m suggesting after reading (and likely misinterpreting) a book. Only that my old probabilistic view of the world wherein the influence you have with respect to your conditions was modest might be wrong. That even the idea it’s possible to opt out of virtually anything is more than just intriguing but liberating.

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I've always been interested in Eastern philosophies and Stoicism. When I first heard about Bitcoin, it seemed to align well with the beliefs, ideas, and lifestyle I was already living. I try my best to be self-sovereign, practice a low-time preference, and delayed gratification. I've also learned so much about Linux, servers, etc...

I'm curious to hear what skills you have gained from Bitcoin, or how it has changed or aligns with your lifestyle.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/724982

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Table Of Content

• The Merger Deal: A Strategic Move

• Growth and Adoption: The Driving Forces

• Trading Details: Accessibility for Investors

• Bitcoin Depot: A Major Player in the Crypto ATM Market

• Conclusion

• FAQ

In a significant development for the cryptocurrency industry, Bitcoin Depot, one of the largest cryptocurrency ATM firms in the United States, has announced that it will go public on Nasdaq starting July 3. This move marks a significant milestone for the crypto industry, reflecting the growing acceptance and mainstream adoption of digital currencies. The listing of Bitcoin Depot on a major stock exchange like Nasdaq signifies the increasing integration of cryptocurrencies into the traditional financial system.

The Merger Deal: A Strategic Move

The public listing of Bitcoin Depot follows the closing of a merger deal with fintech firm GSR II Meteora Acquisition Corporation. GSR II Meteora Acquisition Corporation acted as a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) for Bitcoin Depot. The deal, which was first reported in August 2022, cost $885 million. This merger is expected to allow investors exposure to Bitcoin Depot’s common stock on the Nasdaq. The strategic merger is seen as a significant step towards providing mainstream investors with more opportunities to invest in the burgeoning cryptocurrency market.

Growth and Adoption: The Driving Forces

According to Bitcoin Depot's founder and CEO, Brandon Mintz, the merger deal was aimed at supporting "numerous growth opportunities" and promoting the adoption of Bitcoin (BTC) in North America. Mintz believes that this move will not only provide a boost to Bitcoin Depot but also contribute to the wider acceptance and use of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The public listing is expected to provide the necessary capital for Bitcoin Depot to expand its operations and reach, thereby promoting the adoption of Bitcoin.

Trading Details: Accessibility for Investors

Investors interested in Bitcoin Depot will be able to find shares of the company under the ticker symbols BTM and BTMWW for its common stock and public warrants, respectively, on Nasdaq. This public listing provides an opportunity for investors to gain exposure to the burgeoning cryptocurrency market through a regulated and widely recognized exchange. The listing of Bitcoin Depot's shares on Nasdaq will provide a new and accessible avenue for investors to participate in the growth of the cryptocurrency industry.

Bitcoin Depot: A Major Player in the Crypto ATM Market

Founded in 2016, Bitcoin Depot has grown to become one of the biggest crypto ATM firms in North America. According to its website, the company boasts more than 9,130 locations. Bitcoin Depot's ATMs allow users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, providing a tangible touchpoint for digital currencies. The company's extensive network of ATMs has played a crucial role in making cryptocurrencies more accessible to the general public.

Conclusion

The public listing of Bitcoin Depot on Nasdaq is a significant step forward for the cryptocurrency industry. It not only underscores the growing acceptance of cryptocurrencies but also provides a new avenue for investors to gain exposure to this dynamic and rapidly evolving market. As Bitcoin Depot and other crypto-related firms continue to make inroads into traditional financial markets, the future of digital currencies looks increasingly promising. The listing of Bitcoin Depot is likely to encourage other cryptocurrency companies to consider public listings, thereby further integrating the cryptocurrency industry with traditional finance.

FAQ

What is Bitcoin Depot? Bitcoin Depot is one of the largest cryptocurrency ATM firms in the United States. Founded in 2016, it allows users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin through its network of over 9,130 ATMs.

What is the recent development with Bitcoin Depot? Bitcoin Depot has announced that it will go public on Nasdaq starting July 3, following the closing of a merger deal with fintech firm GSR II Meteora Acquisition Corporation.

What is the purpose of the merger deal? According to Bitcoin Depot's founder and CEO, Brandon Mintz, the merger deal was aimed at supporting "numerous growth opportunities" and promoting the adoption of Bitcoin in North America.

What does Bitcoin Depot's public listing signify? The public listing of Bitcoin Depot on Nasdaq is a significant step forward for the cryptocurrency industry. It reflects the growing acceptance and mainstream adoption of digital currencies and provides a new avenue for investors to gain exposure to the cryptocurrency market.

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Takeaways from Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024

The bitcoin conference in Amsterdam to me is my typical yearly check in with the crypto scene. From a distance, not much has changed since last year. What struck me most was the correlation between the exchange prices and the amount of visitors, I had the feeling the crowd was about twice as big as last year during the opening and high profile talks.

From my personal experience, the increase of audience also brought some dilution to the hard core maximalist anarchist-ness of the event. The overall vibe amongst the attendees was more friendly and open. This also increased the value of the event for me, as I try to broaden my network, get different perspectives and learn more about what interests people in the crypto space.

This year was also marked by my involvement in the Nostr side events, I was asked to give a live performance at the Nostrdam Meetup October 2024 which went over very well and also acted as a nice conversation starter during the rest of the conference. I was also slightly involved in the organisation of the Nostr booth, but credits go to the awesome volunteers that made that happen. It was a bit of a shame that the Nostr booth was tucked away all the way in the back of the (commercial) expo hall, it would have been nice to promote the Nostr initiative to the social community area next to the satoshi radio / connect the world community area

For me the biggest takeaways were the insights I got from the people I’ve met, all from different industries with different perspectives on both technology and involvement. I tried to specifically reach out to (former) CTO’s, which led me to write and share this piece on that particular role. Of course shaking hands and catching up with people I only see once a year is great, and reminds me of the vibe and my experiences at the Fronteers conference.

From a technical point of view I was most inspired by the advancement of AI agent technology and the possibilities of programmable micropayments via de lightning network. Michael Levin showed us that the http spec already has a 402 status of “payment required” and that basically all the required infrastructure is already in place to allow both humans and ai agents to use the lightning network to pay for access to compute or resources using this statuscode and an api gateway such as lightning labs aperture.

talk: HODLing Is Hard: Fundamentals, Cycle & On-Chain Analysis by rational root

• bitcoin is already competing in market cap with other currencies
• amount of euro is exponentially increasing
• from 8 to 16 trillion euros since 2009, but having a real hard cap in btc is fundamentally different
• inflation
  • euro lose 20% in 5 years
  • bitcoin also loses purchasing power, but only 10%
• in current system, we always need to take on maximal debt, instead of saving
• two things can happen
  • we get into overvalued price levels
  • we get into recession
• recession would only mean a shift in the start of the 4 year cycle

panel: Endless Possibilities: Reusing Heat From Miners

• people
  • 21energy Maximilian (obwexer)
  • Bert de groot (bitcoin Brabant)
  • Brad Tom (mara)
• perspective: coming from energy to bitcoin is very different and much faster with implementation than the other way around
• 95% of heat can be captured from miners, much higher in comparison to AI
• being able to balance the grid because you can turn off the bitcoin miners
• ”heatbuffers” → heat is still available when power source goes down
• common objections:
  • Crypto is hard to understand
  • for large industrial clients, heaters, public image of bitcoin (often a door closer)
• people don’t see that miners consume electricity and pay for it.
  • If mining is closed down in Europe, the energy prices will spike because the energy will not be payed for anymore

panel: How to Guard Privacy Tools & Developers

• Dorien Rookmaker & Sjors proviost
• chat control
  • topic keeps returning, and is highly distracting for progress
  • Parliament wants Netherlands to speak against chat control
  • initially they want to just, scan messages now want to install malware before encryption
  • it is distracting Sjors from working on bitcoin
• samurai and tornado are different cases
  • tornado cash is harder because it is also a smart contract with custody over funds
  • samurai is easier: if you don’t have custody, are you responsible for the results of the code?
  • will decide wether whether non custodial systems are ok or not
• micah interpretation is quite vague
• the current Denmark case:
  • if you are rebuilding an interface for a smart contract, you are responsible for implementing all the legal guardrails that apply to securities governance?

panel: NOSTR: Freedom of Algorithmic Choice

• will casarin, mcshane, martti malmi (Sirius iris.to)
• arc (alternative layer on top of bitcoin, like lightning but without channels)
• aha moment: when seeing the unsiloed experience between nostr apps
• were trying to create a town square, so we need to deal with spam
• social media platforms have stagnated a bit, nostr is innovating far more quickly

panel: Transactions As Bitcoin’s Key Growth Metric

• Stephan nilov
  • classical developers don’t know about money and bitcoin development is harder
  • total addressable market is highest in btc, biggest number of possible users
  • bitcoin companies don’t benefit from tokens that are typically exchanged for vc money
  • users are not looking for payments, they are looking for digital property and other things that Ethereum network offers
• Stephan Livera
  • there is a known, slow pace at which bitcoin will be adopted
  • btc market is only 1.2 trillion dollars compared to USD 30 trillion

talk: Making Bitcoin Quantum Resistant by hunter beast

• surmount.systems
• explaining the threat of quantum computing
• problems
  • key size: larger signature required
  • proposal: transaction field attestation
  • 256 bit number key, possibility to factor the private key out of this
• introducing p2qrhash
  • segwitv3
  • satoshishield
• in layman terms:
  • quantum safe upgrades to bitcoin protocol are proposed
  • we need to introduce a software upgrade
  • requires a soft fork, opt in
• possible advantages of quantum in crypto
  • allow us to sign signatures in a way that is unbreakable
• 514 qubits are needed to break something

talk: Lightning and AI: Where the Bots Pay You by michael levin

• two use cases for bitcoin adoption
  • people that don’t have access to fiat
  • things that can’t be handled by fiat systems
• large language models
  • current phase: big adoption
  • next phase: agentic ai
• costs of ai
  • compute 400% more (ben bajarin)
  • algorithm training excess 10 billion dollars
  • data
• costs implications
  • cost of serving answers is 0
  • cost of serving ai query is not 0
  • cost for everyone in the world
• payments in AI
  • now
    • pay per call
  • data
  • accessibility
  • agents
    • agents must be able to do things that cost money
• payment system for AI
  • globally accessible
  • near instant
  • final settlement
  • internet native
  • authentication mechanism
    • personalise access (simple queries for lower tier model)
  • easy to implement
• L402 protocol
  • 402 payment required in http spec
• reverse proxy to have 402 in front of APIs
  • aperture is lightning labs implementation
• all available right now, adoption starting
  • fewsats, sulu, open agents / plebai
  • pay with lightning
• challenges
  • do these payments with stablecoins instead of lightning (hence taproot assets protocol)
• cases
  • agent bots can pay for real world resources
  • taproot assets issue assets on bitcoin allow transfer of
• references
  • L402.org

talk: Bitcoin is Cypherpunk by Aaron van Wirdum

• is bitcoin still Cypherpunks ?
• on one hand we see a push to regulation and frameworks to govern btc
• on the other hand we are arresting developers for writing code

pitches: Bitcoin Amsterdam Pitch Day: Presented by GoBTC

• umoja
  • ceo Robby greenfield
  • LST smartcoin, deflationary by design
  • competes with pools such as lido and rocket pool, but supports multiple coins, including liquid hashrate
    • 30% liquid hashrate returns (!)
  • compliance micah
  • disaster scenarios
    • black swan event → automatic exit out
• magisat
  • trading tools for mempool snipers
  • support for runes
  • volume on bitcoin nft’s is on certain days higher than nft’s on ethereum

panel: Crossing the Boundaries Between Bitcoin & Fiat

• Christian Rau (Mastercard) & Remi destigny (bitrefill )
  • liberation is great, but protocols don’t take customer service into account, chargebacks and rewinding mistakes etc
  • we aim to smooth process by issuing cards that sell your Bitcoin just in time on the backend

talk: Gold & Bitcoin: Friends, Not Foes by Paul Buitink

• premise “the financial system is crumbling”
  • there is too much debt
  • emerging markets lost confidence in western currencies
• freezing Russian assets is shooting ourselves in the foot, as it shows the world you might not want to hold too many dollars that can be easily seized
• record gold buying by central banks in 2022 2023 2024
• gold: 17 trillion marker cap, compared to bitcoin 1.3 trillion

talk: Austrian Economics, Hard Money & Bitcoin Cycles, Willem Middelkoop

• ”we are on the road towards hyper inflation and collapse of financial system”
  • central bankers are pretty smart and very aware
  • this is why they accumulate gold
• when system collapses, central bankers will play the gold card, not the bitcoin card
• US is preparing for big conflict with Russia and china
  • then you can’t use IMF monetary reset
• Asia leadership is the same as US and Russian leadership: they want to stay on control
  • all have about similar gold (per Capita) in their central banks vaults to avoid hyperinflation
• IMF said to el salvador: you need to reign down your bitcoin position
• once central bankers start diversifying (e.g. to bitcoin ) they will strain their own system. The incentives are against adopting bitcoin
• watch out for when on and offramp get blocked / repressed
  • think about diversifying to Dubai, “the new switzerland"
• "bitcoin is the best money ever. fact”
  • superior to gold, because you can store your wealth independant of location
  • more scarce than gold
  • but from central bank point of view, gold is superior to bitcoin
  • younger generation gets this from the start

talk: The Future Will Be Bitcoinized by Elizabeth stark & Rockstar Dev

• stablecoins
  • taproot assets protocol
  • there is a demand for stablecoins and apps on stablecoins
  • 11 trillion dollars in stablecoins
• protocol allows payments in other assets such as stablecoins that use bitcoin/lightning liquidity
  • Elizabeth believes this allows stablecoiners to get interested in the underlying bitcoin layer
• Available now:
  • bridging tether and lightning

products stumbled upon

• Meshtastic
• Flipper
• Noderunners led matrix panel
• 21energy bitcoin heater (1k s9, 3,5k s19)
• angor.io by dangershony on nostr
• bitcoinclock by Djuri

canonical link: https://notes.peterpeerdeman.nl/Bitcoin-Amsterdam-2024

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/724785

@ 34f1aaa6:836e3cd6

Bitcoiners and Libertarians in India are in the minority - ridiculed, dismissed and laughed at as being a bunch of irrelevant nuts being influenced and manipulated by some nonsensical 'western' ideas like natural rights, natural law, economic freedom, individual liberty and financial sovereignty.

This will not always be the case.

A mistake that those who dismiss us make is to think that folks like us are merely influenced by lies, deceit, propaganda and manipulation.

Rather, what we simply did was to search for truth, beauty, morality and goodness. We tried to articulate them and live with the goal of their achievement. Doing this took us down a rabbit hole that went beyond just Bitcoin and Libertarianism as an alternative asset and a political ideology respectively. They slowly turned into a way of life for us as we started improving and educating ourselves individually. We understood what fiat money, statism and collectivism does to our minds, wealth, culture, society and economy. We recognised the subtle lies and deceit that pervades our lives.

A bigger mistake would be to think that ideas of natural rights, natural law, individual liberty, economic freedom and financial sovereignty are nonsensical or 'western' in character.

Natural rights to life, liberty and property derived from the natural law are universal to every human being. They are built on the foundations of reason and logic. They exist even if a coercive or manipulative authority proclaims that they don't, be it a state leader, religious zealot or university intellectual. From this foundation, the push towards individual liberty, economic freedom and financial sovereignty emerges. There is no stronger foundation than that of reason and logic.

The only criticism that can be valid against people like us would be that we are 'irrelevant' or less in number.

But being less in number cannot undermine the kind of impact that people like us can have. For the first time in the subcontinent's long history, individuals who advocate for natural rights and natural law have a chance of becoming financially sovereign and economically free, thanks to Bitcoin and the internet. These tools help us clear a path on which we can pursue our self-interests, aims, needs and goals in a way that is moral and ethical, without relying on the State apparatus, which requires us to lie, cheat, coerce, bribe or manipulate. We can form economic relationships based on trust and voluntary cooperation and make economic decisions based on capital accumulation and low time preference savings and investment.

We have the ability to create what Vaclav Havel would call a 'parallelopolis' - a parallel and moral society with an economy that is outside the realm of State control and regulatory capture. Feasibly so.

We have the ability to create a property base on which we can build our own lives first and then look to build a better society after. It won't be long before people start noticing what we are doing and listening to what we are saying.

The possibility and capability of people like us, less in number as we may be, to create such a property base is the reason we cannot be ridiculed, dismissed or laughed at.

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NIPs (Nostr Implementation Possibilities) are technical specifications that Nostr developers create to define how specific event types and tags are used. These can be written before or after the feature is implemented and often go through multiple revisions before becoming stable enough to matter. Once two or more clients fully implement the proposal, it is merged into the main repository. This process ensures that while new ideas are encouraged, they are also rigorously reviewed and tested.

There are generally two paths for NIPs: 1. New Ideas, when developers just have a hunch on a new solution and want to quickly write something up to gather feedback from the community. These are my favorite NIPs because they generally introduce a new way of thinking about a problem we are all having. And because they are not just a general solution, but a specific proposal, it allows us to see the entire picture in just a few paragraphs. Even though they are my favorite, they are quite "green" and usually spur 2-3 separate solutions in following PRs by different authors. 2. Existing implementations that need to explain what they are doing. These happen when a client is already running the code in production and simply wants to explain to the rest of the community how to generate and interpret the events the client is creating. These NIPs start much more stable than the former and allow for fewer changes, but because there is already an implementation available, it's a market-tested solution that might just need a few adjustments before others start implementing it.

Well-written specs ensure clarity, reduce ambiguity, and help developers implement the proposal consistently. The text should be VERY short, precise, prescriptive, and actionable by other devs. Start by introducing the new kind or tag in the first sentence and jump straight into a mockup of how the event looks like. The mockup should be self-explanatory and provide clues to what the remaining of the document will talk about. Some folks like to add long/verbose introductions, conclusions, and discussions of the reasons why the NIP is needed or why certain features are there. But those are largely unnecessary and are more appropriate to be placed in the body of the Pull Request descriptor.

Start your NIP with the following template:

``` NIP- ======