Our next market?

Starts with an E, and with an e, rhymes with syrup

Cool! Who is this?

My biggest mistake in the bear market was putting on a Bitcoin conference and losing most of my painfully accumulated stack to unexpected expenses and taxes at the worst possible moment. At least I orange pilled and helped others, but how do you deal with this kind of regret?

NOSTR IS PURE FREEDOM.

LIVE LIFE WITHOUT PERMISSION.

NOSTR ONLY. 🫡

I swear, every company is trying to be a SaaS player now. They'd rather rent stuff to you than to sell stuff.

This is, at a deep level, what it means to own nothing.

Learned a lot about UTXOs and UTXO management

What’s up next for my learning curve. Suggestions?

What are the best guides for:

- UTXO management

- Washing KYC sats to get more privacy

I’m new to this so all help is welcome 🫂

How do I add a multisig watch-only wallet to #Sentinel (#Samourai) on Android? Is this even possible?

Didn't find anything on the web so far.

#asknostr

During the previous cycle, we’ve established a ton of new tools and projects that completely changed how we interacted with #Bitcoin.

I think many dont properly appreciate the fact that Lightning is becoming (or possibly already has become) the primary mode of interaction. And even despite fees, onboarding onto Lightning is seamless due to a growing ecosystem of LSPs. 2 years ago that honestly seemed like an overly optimistic goal.

In addition

• we are finally on the cusp of workable DLCs, we will likely very soon have bitcoin native “stable sats” via this tool

• multisig is becoming an industry standard for BTC native financial services

• Fedimint/ecash is starting its rise - which will completely change the custodial landscape

• we have two insanely exciting new communication protocols making their MVP debut - Nostr + Hypercore

• There is an explosion of new entrants in the Lightning ecosystem

• We have numerous new mining & mining pool projects around redecentralizing hash power coming to fruition - Including a FOSS package to “run your own pool.”

• Everyone is bitching about fees being too high instead of Bitcoin’s “security budget problem.”

• We have multiple, entirely novel approaches for new scaling layers - including an incredibly creative new means to use ANY arbitrary code to enforce ownership of a bitcoin UTXO.

• Traditional finance cannot ignore us any longer. For better or worse, they are allocating.

• A country adopted bitcoin as legal tender and started building national payments infrastructure with the bitcoin/lightning stack.

• We have multiple other increasingly bitcoin friendly regimes and political leaders popping up across the global south.

• Streaming sats, zaps, lightning prisms, running lightning services for friends and family, user friendly personal nodes, zero setup non/custodial Lightning - these were all “what ifs” at the end of the last cycle. Today they are all here.

• Tons of new developer interest has flooded into the Lightning ecosystem, and we now have the tooling and dev kits to do an order of magnitude more applications with barely any knowledge or configuration from the app creators needed for it to work securely and easily. This is hugely underappreciated, imo.

There’s a ton of stuff that I know I’m even missing here that deserves a mention, but the ecosystem has matured incredibly these past few years. Most of the biggest leaps have been in infrastructure, which is exactly what is laying the groundwork for a 10x at the application layer that I think comes with this next cycle.

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The REAL kicker though, is that we did this under largely the same development conditions as the past 10 years, but today, Ai is about the drastically change that landscape. Over the next 3 years, the accessibility of development and the capital required to complete a project will DRASTICALLY decline. Already we have LLMs specialized in code that are enabling “so so programmers” to build small & simple functions/apps with very little effort. We have “screenshot to code” which lets you take a picture (or photoshop) a website and it will immediately create the HTML or React code needed to make the website exactly as seen, and this is **just the beginning.** LLMs have been in the public eye for ONLY one year. The amount of building that will be unleashed in the next 3 is going to be hard to fathom.

I want people to understand, if you are technically literate at all, you NOW have the capacity to create a lighting app, a game, a desktop tool, a Nostr app, a Hypercore based software, a website or PWA, **even if you don’t know how to code.** the dev kits, libraries, and Ai combined have done all the heavy lifting for you. The game is changed, start playing.

The acceleration is about to get fucking crazy, and a ton of stuff is aligning at the same time. We have no idea how far these next few years are going to take us.

Buckle

The

Fuck

Up

Is it possible to move everything from Brave Browser to LibreWolf?

10 Quick Tips to become Invisible

1. Avoid VPNs that don’t accept cryptocurrency, but remember they see your home IP. So it's not anonymous without Tor or it's alternatives

2. Avoid Big Tech, but if you have to, then use the LibRedirect browser extension and/or Farside.link service to use Tor or LibreWolf without JavaScript

3. If a website blocks you, try Vanilla Firefox with your VPN set to Port 443 TCP. Modify Firefox to reduce telemetry by setting "block dangerous and deceptive content" and "provide search suggestions" both to off

4. Linux isn’t as hard as you think. You don't need the command line.

5. Keep passwords in offline storage, such as KeePass. Then keep that in VeraCrypt

6. Wear a Bitcoin logo shirt at local public events, then get the info of people who approach you, so you can buy/sell for in-person cash

7. Avoid SMS, but if you have to, then use VoIP and never the number of the SIM card you get service from, to hide your physical location

8. Avoid email, but if you have to, then go for open source software you control.

It's not as hard as people make it out to be.

9. If a friend refuses to use privacy tech (such as Signal/Session), instead of cursing them out, increase the value your friendship offers, to make it worth it to install a new app

10. Be aware that Cloudflare sees ALL content on their network, including passwords.

Check DNS record tools (such as bgp.tools) or Ombrello to see if the site uses them:

ombrelo.im5wixghmfmt7gf7wb4xrgdm6byx2gj26zn47da6nwo7xvybgxnqryid.onion

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