True or false: most people on nostr are over 30, and many over 40.

Network fees for Rootstock -> Lightning swaps just dropped by 50%. Before: 162 sats, Now: 81 sats 🫰

Spontaneous #Lightning payments with your RBTC balance just got even more accessible 🧡

Wen integration to allow your users to spend #Bitcoin on the go? @beexowallet @Rabby_io @EdgeWallet

ELI5 of how we did this:

we extended our Rootstock swap contract to allow us to claim Rootstock swaps in batches. The more swaps happen in a given time frame, the cheaper it gets. If Rootstock swap volume continues to grow, network fees may drop even more.

David Bailey just posted the draft for an executive order for the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve under Trump – and it's an absolute nightmare for anyone using bitcoin as money.

First, the draft order defines Bitcoin as "a finite store-of-value asset, akin to digital gold."

As someone who has lived on Bitcoin for a fairly long time, I can say that Bitcoin is not merely a "store-of-value asset", but a money for payment and day to day purchases.

Defining Bitcoin as a "store-of-value asset" reinforces the ossification narrative (who needs to move a stonk several times in a day?) which may put developers at risk when prioritizing changes to btc to make it more usable as money (think scaling for example).

With this definition, a softfork to activate covenants may become an issue of US national security that goes against the US' definition of its primary goals - directly putting developers in the firing line of the United States Government.

The draft states that federal agencies, such as the US Marshall's Service, may not auction seized Bitcoin off, but must contribute them to the strategic reserve.

This not only reduces the Bitcoin in circulation available to the public, but additionally sets the incentive for the US to increase its seizing efforts – think increased AML/KYC.

While I'm no fan of the strategic reserve in general, this draft is an even bigger disappointment than Sen. Lummis' proposed Bitcoin Act.

To compare this to how El Salvador has implemented Bitcoin, which I admit I initially wasn't a fan of either, ES directly gives citizens rights to use Bitcoin as money - which is a huge upside to benefit the people, and not just the national security state.

No offense, but letting a couple of children that just graduated college and a guy who runs a magazine draft US policy is a scene straight out of idiocracy.

Next time, maybe try speaking to the people actually building and using bitcoin, not just to the boomers and national security goons that sit on the money like a fat kid at the cake buffet.

Incredibly unprofessional conduct here by BPI, a huge risk to anyone using Bitcoin for anything other than an investment, and a testament to the people involved being more interested in furthering their own importance than to empower people with a money without state.

Sincerely hope that this EO is drastically challenged on all levels and hopefully somehow deemed unconstitutional to protect btc and the people developing it.

we blasted through our monthly goal for bills paid with Bitcoin in 10 days

from what i’m seeing in our numbers, living on Bitcoin is taking off. it’s a movement

Trace Mayer handing out little fortune cookie sized pieces of paper about his shit coin in 2020 now he was not my hero. I really didn’t know him that well but I knew he was a hard-core Bitcoin person until he started to pass those out at Unconfiscatable in 2020

Question to all the bitcoin maxis, what would you do if you meet your bitcoin hero and they start pushing tokens/other shitcoins?

‘We will solve debt problems by creating more debt.’

‘We are going to get peace through war.’

‘Voting for whoever creates the problems is the solution.’

‘Save on counterfeit money.’

‘We will solve pollution problems by killing the humans themselves.’

‘The solution to poverty and inequality is to raise taxes more, and also to pollution and any other problem you can think of.’

I could go on and on, but it is the prevailing logic, the smartest was the Unabomber, the only option is to isolate yourself from this crazy world.

If you live by that logic or try to fight against it, you end up going crazy.

Someone asked me today “what is the point of Bitcoin?”

How would you respond in one sentence without using any technical jargon, buzzwords, or clichés?

Nice Indeed.

www.plan.network is killing too.

many courses and tutorials in many languages

They just aren't there yet. You have to ask them the right questions.

A co-worker thanked me last night for getting him into BTC at 18k. Almost brought a tear to my eye. He said he's never had this much money in his entire life. I'm glad he listened and stuck to it, other friends sold and never came back.

Im now offering to show him how to live as close as possible to a bitcoin standard. Ill be gifting him some good reading, like the Bitcoin Standard and Broken Money, next. We are gonna win. 🫂⚡️💜

GM Nostr ☀️

How can we make Primal better?

What are your relays?

a life long avowed agnostic, i recently came to the realization that i do believe in good and evil, which unfortunately i think does mean that i definitely believe in god

Trademarks are a fuck if you do, fuck if you don't type of law.

Was not an easy decision, but had to be made. I own it.

If you don't defend it, you lose it.

And If someone made an evil version of our products we would have less recourse.

Running your sales site of your knock off out of the same repository as your codebase is retarded. Trademark has nothing to do with the code.

Things are never as simple as the cancel ppl try to make it be.

The drama seems to always originate from the same sources...