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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-16 08:52:24
Also a useful text if you deploy a bug to production on Friday :-)
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-16 08:02:41
Yeah, and Big Agriculture keeps lobbying for it because their crops grow faster. But it gets in our food!
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@ cf9b2a13:0937eec1
2025-04-15 22:28:10
Very handy as a fire retardant though.
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-15 21:06:11
Dihydrogen Monoxide!
https://image.nostr.build/b9c130cd448104573da56b1aa68281d920cfe9f08cfe255a3385f9d54f8999c0.jpg
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@ 32e18276:5c68e245
2025-04-15 20:59:10
damn that sounds like the ideal combo
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@ 32e18276:5c68e245
2025-04-15 20:40:19
anyone try this hydrogen water thing? make a difference?
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-15 19:45:19
If only the order was so predictable :-)
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@ 5cad82c8:c598d6ff
2025-04-15 16:58:23
First they come for the migrants, then for the homosexuals and then for you. nostr:note1vumvhyg2022uj4tsarjnrqspj65u6qpr94hgthlr5sjdhntff4rs3xlmg5
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-15 16:51:55
Do you mean Tuesday?
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@ f70851e7:f1ee9109
2025-04-15 16:02:54
Yes, we are doing it again!
Cypherpunk meetup in Prague as an official side event of BTC Prague happens on Thursday, 17th June and it's again on a (different) boat, so we will play pirates!
Tickets below the manifesto...
🔥 Webs, grids, meshes
🫂 Peer-to-peer Everything
We often get smitten by the picture of the world as a hierarchy: Someone always above, someone always below. Bosses, leaders, rulers, chains of command, all wrapped in societal imperatives.
But if you zoom out, the real world doesn’t run on pyramids – it runs on webs. Across the world, resilient communities and decentralized networks are quietly rewriting the rules. They don’t wait for permission. They don’t hold press conferences. They operate in whispers, in code, in trade, in trust. They don’t change the world top-down.They change it side-to-side, network to network.
Bitcoin has the power to turn a gathering into a market. A message into a contract. A connection into a livelihood. It empowers not just the individual, but the network—and in that network, we are seeing real resistance grow. And here, Bitcoin can play a critical role: as private money, as collateral, as a tool for exit.
Come to learn what works, meet those who’ve walked the path in different shoes and get inspired about how to connect the dots, the nodes and the webs into an unbeatable movement.
Because the people building the future aren’t climbing ladders. They’re weaving webs.
Come to ask not “How do we win?”—but “How do we weave?”
https://pay.cypherpunk.today/apps/2XpjQGab73AHiuHq1KNEEyFFKSZx/crowdfund
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-15 08:38:43
Everyone should decide their own emotional state, but if you're organizing a conference and have foreigners attend, you should probably pay attention to border policy.
There've always been scary incidents occasionally, but the frequency has increased and the government is actively fear mongering.
My former university of Utrecht is now giving staff burner laptops for conference travel. That's the kind of stuff one normally does for China.
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-14 09:58:19
https://image.nostr.build/afea5df68d1f81eca22c6e35f2932c0b3353893d0bd308c61cc4fb02218e5a8c.jpg
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-13 20:29:05
> Het OM had dit stilzetten van de overmatige bankmonitoring natuurlijk ook zelf kunnen doen. Als bewaker van het strafrecht had het artikel 138c kunnen toepassen op deze massale privacyschending. Maar in plaats daarvan richtte het zich op het verder opjagen en onder druk zetten van banken vanwege hun antiwitwasbeleid. Dát is waar het misgaat in Nederland.
https://hrif.eu/2025/04/zolang-het-om-dreigt-en-de-ap-zwijgt-blijven-banken-de-avg-en-ai-act-overtreden/
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-13 19:16:14
That said, the area around Georgetown University is quite nice. Just need to shove the freeway underground and make it a river promenade.
https://image.nostr.build/b49af42ffa050b9ff84b8f4f4d2bb50644922c604b56fdde2b8bebfc768b42aa.jpg
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https://image.nostr.build/9aaa42c9dde6bc368e2bb3ecdbbb2395df875dbe02dbb114aefe599e7a30f5b2.jpg
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-13 19:09:22
Vibe urban development?
https://image.nostr.build/a5b2cc7e462106051ebeca5401d7d32c39d7784cdd9e9abcfc463e03afe475e6.jpg
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-13 16:29:47
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-13 16:13:14
Cool, but why are y'all in a room of real estate investors? :-)
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-13 16:05:22
The mainstream economic answer would be that putting up barriers for competition would give American companies no incentive to improve. Sadly there's plenty examples where high tariffs and other barriers did cause laziness, the US ship building industry is one. Brazil also has experience...
Though I suspect a modest tariff might help push entrepreneurs from thinking "there's no point in competing" to "alright, let's try".
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-13 14:27:39
Zarps?
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@ 17538dc2:71ed77c4
2025-04-13 14:22:07
Wen arkzaps? 👀
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-13 14:21:11
Right, so he probably meant "proverbial" but this was a much better sound bite :-)
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-13 13:51:11
* fewer war zones
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-13 13:50:56
Breaking up a long trip is underrated. I wish airports were less hassle and there were fewer zones between Europe and South East Asia though...
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@ 32e18276:5c68e245
2025-04-13 13:43:00
This seems to be the number one response to my question about tariffs:
“If it was made in America the quality would be just as bad as the chinese slop”
Didn’t realize america produces such terrible quality stuff with no hope of improvement 😬
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-13 13:35:20
It makes you go through a fake and clumsy conversation that takes much longer than the form though.
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@ eab0e756:7ab91f4f
2025-04-13 13:11:46
My husband is flying back to the U.S. today after having been stuck in Egypt managing a big construction project for a while.
He hates long flights, so to amp himself up he randomly decided to stop in Dublin for two days. Just because he hadn’t been there before.
So he just went there by himself for no particular reason, stayed in a literal castle hotel, ate steak, drank beer, spent hours walking around seeing all sorts of delightful churches and parks and homes, and then left.
https://m.primal.net/QOAQ.jpg
https://m.primal.net/QOAS.jpg
https://m.primal.net/QOAT.jpg
https://m.primal.net/QOAU.jpg
https://m.primal.net/QOAV.jpg
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@ 74ffc51c:1d6d1856
2025-04-13 06:36:12
Wat. If all AI gives to the world is the ability for me to not have to fill out forms then I'll take it.
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@ 90cca4db:5b130ac6
2025-04-13 03:33:37
I took it as “stop trying to build things grandmas can use, because they won’t no matter how easy you make it.”
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-13 02:41:00
Everyone who bribes sufficiently and/or spooks Wall Street into selling off treasuries?
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-13 02:39:51
Op Next conference. I have no idea what he was trying to say though :-)
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@ bd9eb657:a710a45a
2025-04-13 01:43:28
What was this from?
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-12 18:36:30
I did one yesterday evening too, cool stuff!
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@ bb1cf525:3947672c
2025-04-12 18:16:53
Been trying out what might be among the world's first ARK transactions on Bitcoin mainnet.
Here I send some sats from the @ArkLabs wallet to my Phoenix wallet (using a LN swap).
Bullish!
https://m.primal.net/QNJm.mp4
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-12 15:41:23
DO NOT STACK
IT WILL GET STUCK
https://image.nostr.build/1d648673470688b5c934a5378474e02af33961e94ae44e8bfa9f7823a458fad2.jpg
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@ 1989034e:b9c4276b
2025-04-12 15:29:01
Here's nostr:nprofile1qqs94rjcrut2qyhzf54xgq2j44tzqkxtqe0pmu5wjp7ph75zc9gv3wsprpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuetcw3exzcnfw3eju6t0qyvhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnsv9kxzmnydyhxxmr0w4jqkgrnhe quoting Ayn Rand to a room full of real estate investors.
https://m.primal.net/QNCa.jpg
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-12 14:59:46
Great chart, original by Eric Wall.
Block subsidy relative to fees per halving period.
https://image.nostr.build/f1b4d7e4bcc61cb296b6bfb003d15d1a33b46419a6bbdeabb213727738f99a41.jpg
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-12 13:22:42
Every place could still have a specialty to be proud off, which they then sell all over the world. Ideally of course.
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-12 13:16:51
History of Forks. Good morning.
https://image.nostr.build/2af9cb06d6d942fdd609fe8ba060b9ae4ce042f98151aa69678b89226d1cda8a.jpg
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@ bd8aed58:cb1cdb53
2025-04-12 10:26:12
Local production/manufacturing can give a region a sense of pride and ownership of a product, there’s certainly something to be said there. I understand it’s not all sunshine and roses, but towns and cities all over used and to this day are called things like the “clock city” or the “yarn city” etc, etc.
Consumers very much care about quality but it’s in the context of the product. With extremely cheap, semi disposable goods, consumer’s criteria for quality is mainly that it actually works as intended and doesn’t break immediatley.
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-12 09:06:16
For an illustration of (2): https://youtu.be/B90_SNNbcoU
Putting tariffs on Amazon would probably fix more than putting them on China :-)
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-12 09:03:17
Other than food and a few other things, there's no reason why local production is any better. Global transport is cheap and expertise is spread out.
I think there's two reasons many products are crap quality:
1. Consumers only care about price
2. Amazon deliberately confuses consumers about quality, e.g. by allowing fake reviews, deceptive marketing, not having expert reviews, and not having objective filters for quality
(2) was a bit better when local retailers still existed that actually knew what they were selling and could vouch for quality. Though there plenty bad sales incentives there too.
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@ 32e18276:5c68e245
2025-04-12 08:42:29
Tired of cheap chinese crap everywhere. Maybe people will start saving their money and actually buy good quality stuff locally— not made with Foxconn-style labour. Low time preference.
How are tariffs on china a bad thing in this sense? I get that it’s a lot more complicated, with iphones being assembled by foxconn and the complexities of the supply chain… but still, isn’t this directionally ok? Even if we have to pay a higher price?
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-12 08:15:40
If all your chatbot does under the hood is to fill out a form, JUST GIVE ME THE FORM.
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-12 00:25:57
Are many miners using Windows?
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@ 74ffc51c:1d6d1856
2025-04-12 00:04:58
almost finished with the guide for running DATUM on windows.
it starts - as is tradition - with instructions for how to install Linux. (WSL).
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-11 19:47:56
"The ephemeral grandmother doesn't exist" - nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8
https://image.nostr.build/30ac9c03a09342d5d06183b77678f89c6f8762e4de3332fd1328bc679ba6d766.jpg
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-11 19:37:30
Apparently BitVM diagrams are a meme now?
https://image.nostr.build/e7dbda924ce35648c8c0d7d03be6aca54c72b3d2f4aa25d7a0e86e47f6850b8a.jpg
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-11 17:44:28
Live block validation...
https://image.nostr.build/f6bb168e96c39b1b7cfd973bbda1ef50ab9fec9baea82f4af246dccc80f4e136.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/5bdf8047a0b1640188fdfc6bae635d5827bbf7c2585d046db746d48e3070b64a.jpg
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-11 16:25:55
See schedule: https://opnextschedule.my.canva.site
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-11 16:25:22
Tune in to the livestream in about 1 hour (13:35 ET) for Portland Hodls talk, it should be a fun one:
https://www.youtube.com/live/mhRZZOdJzGE
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-11 15:13:38
Part of a bigger project, will explain later.
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@ 8c61573e:9b4f1f41
2025-04-11 15:04:03
Why?
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-11 13:56:45
I assume it wants your phone number to verify, but I didn't check.
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-11 13:48:50
Huge
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-10 21:23:50
Looking forward to #BitDevs
https://image.nostr.build/89121512b2db53733d0f43ab15aff2389c1676e1669e85e6bdb0d116325f0e53.jpg
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-10 20:04:52
Hashed out the approach between the President and Treasury on how to ban 64 byte transactions. It's a three stage process:
1. Executive Order to explain to the public how these things are only used by bad hombres
2. OFAC will add them to their list. Clearly anyonecanspend is Communist property - but Supreme Court might bikeshed the SegWit issue
3. A soft fork, but we can't wait for Bitcoin Core, they're too fucking slow
#GreatConsensusCleanup
Also I couldn't find the CIA headquarters.
https://image.nostr.build/d85fa9e2d68b28bc74ea263f469c47dcb0112b18219ecafbfe492f92bff377ca.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/dcd024f809400c82883f995f531c24b96b214fd6c437b50ace21be63a4231ceb.jpg
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-10 19:17:19
A #KYC bathroom, only in America...
https://image.nostr.build/cecdbf05417d18274df706ec8c654e486c628ebd9b007d26544d28dc8dab2311.jpg
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-10 17:47:12
Thankfully since Brexit the UK can have its own Bitcoin friendly policy!
In any case, this comes from the #FATF and they're pushing that stuff globally. The EU does it slightly different from the UK, but most of the variation is in how companies enforce it. It sounds like Revolut picked the most shitty way.
It often boils down to cost: if forcing users to send coins back is cheaper than filling out some compliance paperwork, then that's what some companies will do. Especially the kind that doesn't give a fuck about its customers. Just keep in mind that isn't "just the law".
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-10 16:49:35
I would distinguish the obscene Trump tariffs from the EU. The latter is intended to compensate for Chinese state subsidies. The bigger question is why China wants to exploit its own workers to make cars artificially cheap for foreigners.
Maybe in order to kill the EU car industry for the long run and then jack up prices later. Though that seems like a risky bet. Maybe the EU should just let them.
The quality remains to be seen. I wouldn't trust safety stats from China, nor from the current US government. These new cars will need to drive for a while in the EU to know. I suspect there will be some really safe and durable brands as well as absolute shit that Volkswagened its way through the approval process.
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@ 50d94fc2:df281d63
2025-04-10 16:36:36
Fun fact. The biggest electric car manufacturer in the world is called BYD and is... Chinese! Their cars cost about half the price of a Tesla for 150% of the quality.
Western trade blocks, if they even exist anymore, are shitting their pants about them so much that our overlords don't let us purchase these cars at their real price. If you believe that tarrifs are going to fix this, I'm very very sorry.
Go travel and see for yourself. And if you don't shit your pants you might wanna see a brain doctor. We're rekt and there's not much to do about it.
https://image.nostr.build/8cf8adf9b50559eb613279e49947badc2b0479eb4f61dff93061a2da806e1ddf.jpg
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-10 12:03:08
#WeAreAllBelgium?
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-10 12:02:16
I suspect they didn't make the USB controller.
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@ 49e2566f:4fe9e853
2025-04-10 07:29:18
Do you want the roads to become even worse? 😉
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@ 76c71aae:3e29cafa
2025-04-10 03:35:02
Did you know you can buy a keyboard made in the US? It looks really nice. The thing is to build a keyboard in the US means it costs $3600!
https://www.norbauer.co/pages/the-seneca
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-10 00:23:46
Well, that's easy to hedge against by buying defense industry stocks :-)
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@ 0691202d:98be4b1c
2025-04-09 23:56:48
No worries Sjors, EU citizens will be extra taxed to fund the war and fund military development in each of the EU countries
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-09 23:16:50
So do the EU revenge-tariffs mean we get lower income taxes? Or does that economic theory on work in the USA?
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-09 15:29:15
Variations of this claim exist, I believe Dan Carlin brought it up here as well: nostr:note1prfe8zwuu5qq08ymsdf3xrn94yed25lyk0upy8xjr6dzurd67y6qenk0f9
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@ 20214b78:a9d72abc
2025-04-09 14:48:34
Good insight, never thought of it that way before.
Did you come up with that on your own or read it somewhere?
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-08 17:43:44
* liberation
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-08 17:43:31
Liberarion Day
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-07 01:38:47
I assume it's a bug in the nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg plugin? Either that or in my nginx redirect rules.
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-07 01:37:13
I'm confused about the URL, why doesn't it start with pay . sprovoost . nl?
Will look into it more tomorrow(ish) after the conference...
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@ 97f848ad:38272911
2025-04-07 01:36:48
I think your "callback url" implementation is rejecting encoded nostr events which are too long ... these events can get too long (in characters) if there are a lot of relays.... the relevant part of the spec is here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/3e8c33ee79e3d2eb46ca498eddadcc6ef1ef7329/57.md?plain=1#L31
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@ 97f848ad:38272911
2025-04-07 01:35:04
I **think** I have diagnosed the issue. Here is a callback URL that does not work: https://btcpay989117.lndyn.com/BTC/UILNURL/pay/lnaddress/pedromvpg?amount=1000&nostr=%7B%22id%22%3A%22da4036f7220a39ac48bb6497b1090048f49ee078d8677bec4aef6490f2b95a25%22%2C%22sig%22%3A%22d11193e5e90ce9975447678c43dbc470f5113688b2d008f8b5c539a7afbb9c895c41a30c097c44ccfc6ce26ddae0fed527837c62be8c20b0905cabe17ac9486d%22%2C%22pubkey%22%3A%2297f848adcc4c6276685fe48426de5614887c8a51ada0468cec71fba938272911%22%2C%22created_at%22%3A1743989620%2C%22kind%22%3A9734%2C%22tags%22%3A%5B%5B%22relays%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Fbostr.lightningspore.com%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Frelay-nwc-dev.rizful.com%2Fv1%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Fbrb.io%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Feden.nostr.land%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Fnos.lol%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Fnostr-pub.semisol.dev%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Fnostr.orangepill.dev%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Fnostr.zebedee.cloud%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Foffchain.pub%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Fpuravida.nostr.land%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Fpyramid.fiatjaf.com%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Frelay.current.fyi%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Frelay.damus.io%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Frelay.snort.social%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Fnostr.wine%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2F140.f7z.io%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Frelay.f7z.io%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Frelay.primal.net%2F%22%5D%2C%5B%22amount%22%2C%221000%22%5D%2C%5B%22lnurl%22%2C%22https%3A%2F%2Fbtcpay989117.lndyn.com%2F.well-known%2Flnurlp%2Fpedromvpg%22%5D%2C%5B%22p%22%2C%228cd2d0f8310f7009e94f50231870756cb39ba68f37506044910e2f71482b1788%22%5D%2C%5B%22e%22%2C%22b8a8ca5154b2725b6810df191f9d399ede245c0e79fd5bae94a19456711ddc66%22%5D%5D%2C%22content%22%3A%22%E2%9C%A8%22%7D&lnurl=LNURL1DP68GURN8GHJ7CN5VDCXZ7FE8QUNZVFH9EKXUEREDCHXXMMD9UH8WETVDSKKKMN0WAHZ7MRWW4EXCUP0WPJKGUN0D4M8QECJMRCWV ........ and here is a callback URL that DOES work... https://btcpay989117.lndyn.com/BTC/UILNURL/pay/lnaddress/pedromvpg?amount=1000&nostr=%7B%22id%22%3A%226ffa1ef877d86d62c1c7813c42e699e916fe53ccfc277740524a14a8bd25c719%22%2C%22sig%22%3A%2208c4924fc86875a7384a62bbe3eee72165b82789a63a8dacb9bce722a8c23fce638b8339075a4b184f347ec5992dc1f77ca74b649c31613c39f636a7c02bae93%22%2C%22pubkey%22%3A%2297f848adcc4c6276685fe48426de5614887c8a51ada0468cec71fba938272911%22%2C%22created_at%22%3A1743989580%2C%22kind%22%3A9734%2C%22tags%22%3A%5B%5B%22relays%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Fbostr.lightningspore.com%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Frelay-nwc-dev.rizful.com%2Fv1%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Fbrb.io%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Feden.nostr.land%2F%22%2C%22wss%3A%2F%2Fnos.lol%2F%22%5D%2C%5B%22amount%22%2C%221000%22%5D%2C%5B%22lnurl%22%2C%22https%3A%2F%2Fbtcpay989117.lndyn.com%2F.well-known%2Flnurlp%2Fpedromvpg%22%5D%2C%5B%22p%22%2C%228cd2d0f8310f7009e94f50231870756cb39ba68f37506044910e2f71482b1788%22%5D%2C%5B%22e%22%2C%22b8a8ca5154b2725b6810df191f9d399ede245c0e79fd5bae94a19456711ddc66%22%5D%5D%2C%22content%22%3A%22%E2%9C%A8%22%7D&lnurl=LNURL1DP68GURN8GHJ7CN5VDCXZ7FE8QUNZVFH9EKXUEREDCHXXMMD9UH8WETVDSKKKMN0WAHZ7MRWW4EXCUP0WPJKGUN0D4M8QECJMRCWV ..... you can see that the callback URL that DOES work is SHORTER...
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-07 01:21:24
Great talks, nice birds. #MITexpo
https://image.nostr.build/f8bd388c339b1098ea1e960f3ef642819ff1c75867d5820a0ef3c224ca03bc21.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/192ef4ab2086099f890d79035ba492e884b3beb383b39ba987a1d74edea70efc.jpg
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-06 18:40:10
Nope
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@ 97f848ad:38272911
2025-04-06 18:28:04
I was just able to zap you manually through Yakihonne... did you fix something?
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-06 17:37:45
I thought I setup CORS correctly in nginx. Is there a way to reproduce the failure? E.g. a url or curl command?
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-06 17:36:04
nostr:note1sy5haw39v89gh6lykpwuclu4fpheefz9s23hmazlrsdfyr9rffuq89ujyu
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-06 17:31:44
Perhaps the defense conceded too much territory, but from what I remember in the Dutch trial, the only dispute was whether North Korea used the UI. We'll see what happens on appeal and in the US trial.
I think the context of Franks remark was the number of journalists physically in the court room, half a dozen in The Netherlands including three "mainstream" media, vs one in the US.
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@ 97f848ad:38272911
2025-04-06 16:51:30
Sorry, I mean step #6. Your server did not reply with an invoice. And yes, the entire lightning address spec is a CORS minefield. Very easy to set up web application that will totally reject lightning address requests due to CORS.
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@ d8a6ecf0:9116647b
2025-04-06 15:39:55
Watched the MIT Bitcoin Expo discussion about the Samourai Wallet and Tornado Cash prosecutions, and there seem to have been some misconceptions.
First, it is not "clear" that North Korea used Tornado Cash, as there appears to be ambiguity on how these funds are attributed. The reliability of said attributions has previously been a topic of debate in the criminal prosecution of Roman Storm.
We cover this here: https://www.therage.co/tornado-cash-trial-blockchain-surveillance-reliability/
Second, of course sanctions enforcement plays a role in the crackdown on privacy services, as a fully private financial system would make sanctions unenforceable, relieving the US of its most powerful economic warfare tool – some scholars may even go as far as arguing that sanctions enforcement is the main reason for AML frameworks to exist.
The idea that large transactions, such as for oil trade, would remain identifiable on chain despite mixer use is additionally completely incorrect, as Bitcoin mixers break down large UTXOs into various smaller UTXOs. If a large transaction remained identifiable through mixers, mixers would be useless.
I cover sanctions enforcement in my latest Bitcoin Magazine print article, which you can purchase here: https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/collections/magazines/products/bitcoin-magazine-annual-subscription
Third, institutions like EFF have of course gotten involved in these cases, namely by filing an amicus brief on behalf of Roman Storm in the beginning of this year, addressing the impacts of Storm's prosecution on privacy software development in general.
We cover EFF's amicus brief here: https://www.therage.co/eff-tornado-cash/
Fourth, and this one is crucial, of course there have been actions brought against the individuals and groups that used the software services for illicit activity.
Money laundering is the only crime that can only exist if another crime has previously been identified. If the DOJ was not pursuing crimes related to Tornado Cash or Samourai Wallet, no charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering could exist against the developers.
The notion that criminal funds cannot be attributed when mixers are utilized is incorrect, as mixers, like any privacy tool, can only provide forward-facing privacy. The source of funds will always be identifiable.
As nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyv8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnnwpex7an0daehgtnwdsqzpp59a0hkv5ecm45nrckvmu7pnk0sukssvly33u3wwzquy4v037hcsgt75r correctly points out, what arguably brought on the prosecution of Tornado Cash developers was the alleged use of the service through North Korea.
Both cases feature additional criminal activity that the DOJ is pursuing, such as hacks on "cryptocurrency-exchange-01" and "cryptocurrency-exchange-02" in the case of Tornado Cash, as well as Silk Road and Hydra Market proceeds in the case of Samourai Wallet.
Last but not least, calling on the public to educate lawmakers on the use of privacy services is obviously a good idea, but for those who want to become active to protect developers, advocating for the House to pass the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act, which was introduced in 2023, may be the most fruitful endeavor.
As a sidenote, nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7urjv4kkjatd9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsqzqmxyyf0hjux9dw0559uy4pwah00fwkv7xed63jry5nv3qk2zku3zxr2wva , painting yourself as "the only journalist" who is covering the Samourai Wallet prosecution in depth is not just wrong, but also an asshole move.
Grateful that MIT Bitcoin Club is bringing these topics up – if you are new to these cases, the panel talk is a good place to start despite my eternal nitpicking.
Full reporting: https://www.therage.co/privacy-on-trial-mit-bitcoin-expo/
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-06 15:01:36
A) Thanks!
B) it's worked pretty well, but recently less so. Hard to debug, e.g. it might be a CORS issue, LNURL problem or just no route to my CLN node.
https://docs.btcpayserver.org/Nostr/
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@ 97f848ad:38272911
2025-04-06 12:43:03
A) Love your podcast, I think I have listened to every episode at least in the last 2 to 3 years
B) It looks like you are using your BTC server to receive zaps. I'm not sure how viable that is... we're benchmarking thousands of lightning addresses and I believe this is the first we have seen that is directly associated with a BTCpay instance.
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-06 11:49:08
Oh this is actually not about my btcpay server.
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-06 11:00:42
Though obviously I'm not going to de-sovereign my setup :-)
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-06 10:59:54
This is useful debug info, thanks!
nostr:note1nl2wmuqthmyf5s5ssvg9qz7ngcanznjx5wkfqp02dskmmzv8td9s5vq0nx
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-05 21:52:26
Fishermen?
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@ 2183e947:f497b975
2025-04-05 21:42:56
I think most people who own boats are republicans
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-05 21:32:44
Gloria Zhao on mempool, orphanage, etc #MITexpo
https://image.nostr.build/25e6a5b3ec1217fbe82eb31031eceb939bca4e36e4c87961b7e96743efa00d9d.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/bbba281fa29a508baa4ee6bd0ab45cb8d35bc6cf8fe8044a47694a3a82473180.jpg
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-05 15:02:14
Tadge translates Executive Order 6102 to crypto speak. #MITExpo
https://image.nostr.build/d9bef09d35c80281e594a3f8a88e94029501a07463e9402359cb1423a442b6ec.jpg
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-04 15:50:42
Many people who call themselves libertarian are royalists. They seek favor from a King to leave them alone. What that king does to other people, they don't care about.
They might even believe that ideally there would be no king and they would still be left alone.
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-04 13:29:08
It depends on your level of cynicism, which for me varies by the day. On a bad day I agree with you. But on a good day I'm reminded that sometimes these laws can be used *against* government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
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@ 1739d937:3e3136ef
2025-04-04 12:14:06
How does GDPR give anyone privacy protection? It's classic EU privacy theatre. All show, and lots of waste, but no benefit.
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-04 12:10:27
Never waste an opportunity to further weaken privacy protection when at the same time you're bringing back chat control?
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-03 20:29:26
Made it to #Boston without getting deported to El Salvador. And on time for #BitDevs
Found someone looking for nuts!
https://image.nostr.build/7f19d7447994632cd910ff026acdd41ff1fd5702c8ef27dd07da9566a7f37e4f.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/330178c273f22c193ad3cb50b087a9cc4662bcf3d12e6b4ed7da8f79eab692cb.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/2b10a602a22d94daab6f94022b409baa1ec796c8513a1d3648217f6e4d635296.jpg
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@ 1739d937:3e3136ef
2025-04-03 19:16:10
I won’t hold my breath, but it’s a start…
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-gdpr-privacy-law-europe-president-ursula-von-der-leyen/
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@ 50d94fc2:df281d63
2025-04-03 19:09:20
turns out "libertarians" don't care about freedom of trade
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@ 8685ebef:58f8faf8
2025-04-03 08:46:55
Where is tracking link bot 🤖? This link definitely had one.