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Demand I pay ransom/renewal fee increase? I say: kill the hostages!

RIP thebutterzone.com

& tbz1.com before it.

tbz.one is last (exp. 12/1/2031) unless anyone wants to buy email forwarding addresses under that domain.

If Blockchain Merchant is safe & secure, it would beat Cash App's custodial bitcoin handling for merchants who just want to put in their xPub & not withdraw coins out of keys not theirs.

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Technician

Storing illegal data on other people’s computers forever is more valuable to some people than any monetary transaction is to most others.

It seems that people overlook this because they don’t notice all the walls, both physical and digital, that are in place to isolate certain black markets from general markets. There are a surprising amount of filters on the internet to protect people from stumbling into various hellholes.

Bitcoin currently has similar walls, but people don’t realize how important they are because Google refuses to show all the insane search results that can be returned for even the most innocent search terms.

This could end with a “hide your Bitcoin node under your floorboards” era of Bitcoin. It’ll be SO FUN, and we’ll find out who the hardcore cypherpunks are.

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 4mo ago

A ton of notifications just appeared...

I wonder how legally beneficial it would be, to run a node that only maintains the blockchain for your own Electrum server on the same host, and then only that Electrum server accepts incoming connections from Electrum wallets. Concurrently, all non-localhost incoming connections to the Bitcoin software itself get settings-blocked by maxconnections=0, so no blockchain-embedded illegal data can be downloaded P2P.

Unless I'm misunderstanding the config of Electrum servers & everything can be accessed remotely.

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 4mo ago

#defcon33 #DEFCON If you found a Dell laptop charger, takomaki on Discord lost one.

Only response so far was:

"someone in line on Saturday morning was asking folks, apparently someone lent and he still had it"

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 5mo ago

Have you ever heard of the phone number porting PIN being the last 4 digits of the phone number?

Seems insecure, but this is VOIPo that's alleged to be doing that as they shut down

https://x.com/Brrrrrew/status/1951693423708356867

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 5mo ago

BREAKING: VOIPO ending operations per https://x.com/VOIPO/status/1950620114589716984 & https://voipo.com/

" VoIPo will be ceasing operations effective August 6th, 2025 at 11:59PM EST. This was not an easy decision, but due to challenging market conditions, significant financial losses, and a key vendor disrupting our ability to process credit cards or issue refunds, we can no longer operate."

https://web.archive.org/web/20250730234340/https://www.voipo.com/tos.php?full=1 says

"If VOIPo terminates service for any reason other than a Terms of Service violation, the customer will receive a full prorated refund for any prepaid service."

But there's no indication prepaid service will be refunded on the homepage notice as of this posting. Needs a Web Archive re-save - last capture was July 17.

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🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈

Suspended from X again.

Artificial Idiocy really hates when you wish tyrants to serve the entire rest of their lives in prison.

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 5mo ago

Deactivated my account & discovered I could log right back in without TOTP 2FA. Seems like a vuln.

After I reactivated, I set that up again from square one.

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 5mo ago 💬 1

Suspended from X again.

Artificial Idiocy really hates when you wish tyrants to serve the entire rest of their lives in prison.

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Lyn Alden

I think JPEGs on the timechain are stupid.

But the idea that they're going to hurt Bitcoin seems so weak to me. Like the US dollar can withstand people scribbling on it but Bitcoin can't?

In fact, the idea of Bitcoin as a glorious digital monument with some graffiti scribbled on it represents humanity pretty well. That's kind of us in a nutshell. Seems on-brand. Perfectionists trying to keep their little gardens tidy while trolls come in and find ways to mess with them anyway.

NFTs and memecoins already had their peak fad moments. People now know that they're non-scarce gambling toys rather than investments. It's just echoes of that peak now. The only thing that concerned me about the ordinals/runes period was the rapid UTXO bloat, not the blockspace usage, since the latter already has a consensus limit on it.

And if Bitcoin transactions can't outprice JPEGs in the long run, then it's just not that valuable. Bitcoin currently does about 1% of the gross settlement volume of Fedwire. That's peanuts. Imagine if it reaches a point where it does even like 10% of Fedwire. What would you pay to move a full bitcoin globally, permissionlessly, in 10 minutes, in a world where it's no longer a niche thing?

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 7mo ago 💬 4

Feds salivating over the aiding & abetting of CSAM JPEGs onto the timechain, to put full-blockchain-keeping bitcoiners in prison for 18 USC 2252.

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🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈

@npub1teawtzxh6y02cnp9jphxm2q8u6xxfx85nguwg6ftuksgjctvavvqnsgq5u Verifying My Public Key: "TheButterZone"

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 7mo ago

And of course X has another outage as I try to do the reciprocal nostr verification there.

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 7mo ago 💬 1

@npub1teawtzxh6y02cnp9jphxm2q8u6xxfx85nguwg6ftuksgjctvavvqnsgq5u Verifying My Public Key: "TheButterZone"

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 1y ago

No of course it couldn't be that easy because "Zap Pool only works if you use one of the supported wallet connections" [that I won't use yet]

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Niko🐳Bitcoin🐳

In Japan, there was a little protest trend on X where people were raising thier voices in refusal to pay taxes to the crooked governers that pocketed their tax money.

Realistically speaking, there is very little they can do to escape the taxation. That's true unless they know Bitcoin. Whatever amount is saved in Bitcoin is untouchable by the government or any third party. I wish more people learn about it and protect themselves from government tyrannies.

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 1y ago 💬 1

Why Don't More Japanese Get Bitcoin? (Teruko Neriki, Fulgur Ventures)

https://fountain.fm/episode/GBayPAsd4LTRo7IBVs8Y

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 2y ago

WeUseCoins commercial https://youtu.be/pRHeWbn15YY

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 2y ago

Bitcoin commercial https://youtu.be/XxUv8BxmqSw

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iru@localhot $_

Don’t they use Bitpay which now requires KYC?

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 2y ago

Need to get them over to BTCPay

Replying to

Seraf

Hey #Bitcoin CEO, please lower price. I want to buy some. Thanks, big fan🤙

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 2y ago 💬 1

Currently ~50% discount off the last legitimate price (ATH)

🔫 🏴 Alwin 🦌 🌈 2y ago

Bitcoin Only circular economy? Selling mystery boxes to any of the 50 United States. ₿0.003 minimum, shipping included (unless you want to send me a prepaid label PDF after I weigh & measure). Please DM.