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erik
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Bitcoin Product Designer @ Hoseki. Human Rights Foundation grantee working on ecash.

do you think a man can vibecode better than god?

ty for the zaps! if you’re into this kind of stuff you should follow this bot i made nostr:npub1jtjd0g3x69hr5n7vmsy75v2zw6l6quxmxc78ykssgrm8kncptsmqqs2uhv

haven’t used it yet. i want to. i hear it’s great at ui.

it's truly insane how every controversial bitcoin topic du jour was already discussed on the cypherpunk mailing list in the 90s in some form.

my year in code with cursor

tokyo bitcoin base

eat, look at art, shop, see tokyo bitcoin base, walk around.

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It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

it’s insane how frustrating the web browsing experience is while using a vpn. i through obscure vpn would help stop the vpn detection, but it did not.

woke up in japan for the first time in my life.

"everyone has dreams."

"what's your dream?"

"fly."

first impressions matter. taiwan bitcoin hub just opened and the design is excellent. the typography, posters, slides all looked good. taiwan has some cracked designers with a good taste, lucky to have met a few.

follow nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyf8wumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetnqqsf9exh5gndzm36flxdcz02x9p8d0aqwrdnv0rjtggypanmfuq4cds05uav7 to improve the quality of your doomscrolling.

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i vibecoded a cypherpunk quote bot using shakespeare during the building with open source ai workshop at nostr:nprofile1qqsxhwmaw842y4zzzk580cfke4l5jr6xyh44v3v6pk59dnyzjm2a7vqcd5flv taipei.

https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqsf9exh5gndzm36flxdcz02x9p8d0aqwrdnv0rjtggypanmfuq4cdstglu0v

i've been feeding my llm rare interviews from chaum, may, diffie, and zimmerman etc...and asking it to extract relevant quotes and add them to the database.

i found some gems, some quotes i suspect many people haven't heard. follow cypherpunk quotes on nostr if this sounds like something up your alley.

follow nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyf8wumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetnqqsf9exh5gndzm36flxdcz02x9p8d0aqwrdnv0rjtggypanmfuq4cds05uav7

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i vibecoded a cypherpunk quote bot using shakespeare during the building with open source ai workshop at nostr:nprofile1qqsxhwmaw842y4zzzk580cfke4l5jr6xyh44v3v6pk59dnyzjm2a7vqcd5flv taipei.

https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqsf9exh5gndzm36flxdcz02x9p8d0aqwrdnv0rjtggypanmfuq4cdstglu0v

i've been feeding my llm rare interviews from chaum, may, diffie, and zimmerman etc...and asking it to extract relevant quotes and add them to the database.

i found some gems, some quotes i suspect many people haven't heard. follow cypherpunk quotes on nostr if this sounds like something up your alley.

thank you nostr:nprofile1qydhwumn8ghj7emvv4shxmmwv96x7u3wv3jhvtmjv4kxz7gpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerfw36x7tnsw43qqgqyv87tanzvxd6y8xfj66u0zynfendhejtn44a9pt3k9kcntfr5m5zenmf4 and the shakespeare crew for the excellent talk + workshop.

i vibecoded a cypherpunk quote bot using shakespeare during the building with open source ai workshop at nostr:nprofile1qqsxhwmaw842y4zzzk580cfke4l5jr6xyh44v3v6pk59dnyzjm2a7vqcd5flv taipei.

https://primal.net/p/nprofile1qqsf9exh5gndzm36flxdcz02x9p8d0aqwrdnv0rjtggypanmfuq4cdstglu0v

i've been feeding my llm rare interviews from chaum, may, diffie, and zimmerman etc...and asking it to extract relevant quotes and add them to the database.

i found some gems, some quotes i suspect many people haven't heard. follow cypherpunk quotes on nostr if this sounds like something up your alley.

woke up smelling like a taiwanese night market.

yes. we don't feel it's our place to replace the design decisions Signal has made for their crypto wallet. they've decided how crypto payments should feel in their app, we just want to show that bitcoin can fit into what they've already built.

the image has been updated btw.

should be the screen on the right only. good catch. i will fix. below is what the signal UI looks like.

and i still think about what.cd weekly. some things just don’t leave you.

yeah i know think integrating cashu into signal is a really bad idea, no one should build this. you’ve totally changed my mind on this. thank you.

of all the nuts in the world i like cashews the best. they give me hope.

🥜 Ecash Hackday 25k5 🥜

Join us on October 1st in Berlin

One day before bitcoin++

👉 More Info and sign up: https://ecashhackday.github.io/

I love two things: bit and coin.

GM. Start your day with this in the background.

https://youtu.be/t9HmOz8H0qI

You will learn how to throw the nut and be happy. Thank you Riga and Baltic Honey Badger.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gx5-X8IWwAAmew7

Much more private than lightning, offline transmission, you can use SMS NFC or bluetooth to send ecash, instant settlement (requires no lightning network path routing), very low fees and Cashu is fully interoperable with lightning.

Trade off is that the users are trusting a mint to act as your custodian, but if you need privacy or if you're in an area with spotty internet access (like Cuba) then Cashu will work.

You can check out CubaBTC on twitter for real world examples of how the offline functionality is particularly useful for them.

https://x.com/Cuba_BTC/status/1916379812505018386