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Râu Cao ⚡
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Traveling full-time since 2010. Working on open-source software daily. Currently integrating Nostr features into Kosmos accounts.

Wasn't the worst movie I've ever seen, but it was incredibly annoying that they didn't bother showing the actual rescue in the end.

I'm watching kind 4 direct messages from popular relays in a live stream, and it feels almost as dirty as watching the Venmo firehose, albeit with encrypted content at least.

Alas, there's no way to confirm it. Someone could've faked most of that amount.

Enjoying noStrudel a lot! Looks basic at first, but is actually much more capable than most clients. And yet, it feels lightweight and fun.

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Hooray! Just before the end of CEST Sunday, I have completed our strfry LDAP policy, which only permits known users to write to our #nostr relay!

https://gitea.kosmos.org/kosmos/akkounts/pulls/196/files#diff-cc5c58329fae4e65a47568a691835d6d14ab236a

(Beware that you will need to register the nostrKey attribute in your server's schema to make it searchable. You can find an LDIF file for that in the akkounts repo as well.)

Thanks for the policy framework, nostr:npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p! Couldn't be any easier to integrate with. Spent half the day just fighting Docker to get Deno into the strfry container in our development setup.

Hooray! Just before the end of CEST Sunday, I have completed our strfry LDAP policy, which only permits known users to write to our #nostr relay!

https://gitea.kosmos.org/kosmos/akkounts/pulls/196/files#diff-cc5c58329fae4e65a47568a691835d6d14ab236a

(Beware that you will need to register the nostrKey attribute in your server's schema to make it searchable. You can find an LDIF file for that in the akkounts repo as well.)

There seem to be problems with Deno on basic Alpine base images, and the error is just as unhelpful as it could possibly be. :/

I wish octopi weren't so damn delicious, because I frequently have to contend with the predicament of both admiring their intelligence and wanting to eat them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OIXSdMVfSE

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People don’t see what we’re dealing with behind the scenes.

As a chairman of the United Bitcoin companies the Netherlands (VBNL) a lot is happening. In the last few months we had serious issues with the bank that facilitates most on/off ramping for exchanges in the Netherlands.

In January a large part of the bitcoin exchanges received a cost increase from €499,- to €4999,- per month for their bank account. In April they received a letter that the companies had until 10th of June to move their funds and operation to another bank. The bank accounts were going to be closed down.

The issue is that many exchanges have built extensive API’s for smooth on/off ramping with this bank. So this was a move that caused a lot of stress for many people. Communication with the bank was impossible. So every individual company took them to court. Only one case was actually brought into the court room and the company won. The other companies received a message they could hold their bank account.

The insane cost increase is still there and creeping further through the list of bitcoin companies.

We’re now looking at a way to reduce the cost, because for small companies it means bankruptcy.

This we do as companies together. And VBNL has been doing this for over a decade now.

For now it’s a bank, and on 10th of September we’re facing an even larger cost issue. The Dutch central bank. We won the court case with 11 exchanges but off course they appealed and now we’ll be standing at the Supreme Court. The central bank has burdened the exchanges with millions of regulatory oversight cost that were not lawful. A win during this court case would not only drop the cost for the exchanges between 2020-2024 but most likely also impact future cost under MICAR and the Authority of financial Markets. We’re currently looking at a €5.6 million cost from just AFM for the ongoing regulatory oversight for MICAR in 2025. Wish us luck.

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We've been trying to get a bank account for a new Stichting for over a year now. Every single bank left us hanging for months on end until they suddenly got back to us with a rejection, but never stating their reasoning. And I'm not even angry at the banks per se, but mostly at the government for threatening them with heavy fines for not doing the required pre-crime policing in a way that leaves zero work for actual law enforcement.

Fun fact: I'm getting notified via #xmpp when you zap me on #nostr, because we're mixing up and connecting various decentralized protocols in our (open-source) accounts back-end. (And for secondary accounts I usually set it to notify via email.)

Also, I log into my Kosmos account using my Nostr key via nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm.

Many more integrations to come! Currently setting up our members-only relay, so we can do things like auto-sync notes and media to a user's #remoteStorage and such.

She could argue that the amount of money changing hands makes it of "compelling public interest", i.e. requires "transparency". A lot of people would probably agree, myself not included.

However, there's an actual lie in the subheader worth correcting, which is that he gave $10M directly to nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6. That claim is contradicted in the article itself even.

"I find this whole world of a thousand years of common law important. I don't think coder's law is good. I think it is shit. I think coder's law is the lowest attack on modern society, the biggest SJW attack, trying to rip down everything we have good." — Satoshi Nakamoto