We just released Boltz BTCPay Plugin v1.3.10/v2.1.11 along with Boltz Client 2.4.1

Highlights:

- Fixes an issue with some lightning payouts

BTCPay Server v2 will notify about the update in the UI, users still on BTCPay v1 need to download the v1.3.10 plugin from GitHub and upload manually through the BTCPay UI.

The correct framing here is not that Nostr has evil content, but that _some relays_ do.

These relays are not Nostr, Nostr is only the language your client uses to download the content from the relay, and your device only downloads what it asks for and from the servers it chooses to.

Bitcoin Strategic Reserve (and Digital Asset Stockpile)

via David Sacks on Twitter 👇🏻

Just a few minutes ago, President Trump signed an Executive Order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

The Reserve will be capitalized with Bitcoin owned by the federal government that was forfeited as part of criminal or civil asset forfeiture proceedings. This means it will not cost taxpayers a dime.

It is estimated that the U.S. government owns about 200,000 bitcoin; however, there has never been a complete audit. The E.O. directs a full accounting of the federal government’s digital asset holdings.

The U.S. will not sell any bitcoin deposited into the Reserve. It will be kept as a store of value. The Reserve is like a digital Fort Knox for the cryptocurrency often called “digital gold.”

Premature sales of bitcoin have already cost U.S. taxpayers over $17 billion in lost value. Now the federal government will have a strategy to maximize the value of its holdings.

The Secretaries of Treasury and Commerce are authorized to develop budget-neutral strategies for acquiring additional bitcoin, provided that those strategies have no incremental costs on American taxpayers.

IN ADDITION, the Executive Order establishes a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile, consisting of digital assets other than bitcoin forfeited in criminal or civil proceedings.

The government will not acquire additional assets for the Stockpile beyond those obtained through forfeiture proceedings.

The purpose of the Stockpile is responsible stewardship of the government’s digital assets under the Treasury Department.

PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT

President Trump promised to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and Digital Asset Stockpile. Those promises have been kept.

This Executive Order underscores President Trump’s commitment to making the U.S. the “crypto capital of the world.”

I want to thank the President for his leadership and vision in supporting this cutting-edge technology and for his rapid execution in supporting the digital asset industry. His administration is truly moving at “tech speed.”

I also want to thank the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets — especially Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — for their help and support in getting this done. Finally Bo Hines played a critical role as Executive Director of our Working Group.

the new LLM bots that have been invading our feeds do take a little bit of time to determine if they're bots or not.

this is partially because the owner sets them up manually and even creates a few notes manually.

i see you.

they're fairly easy to find and mute/block though.

here are some of the red flags that i've found:

STR in the name along with a nostr address with STR@iris.to or STR@coinos.io and coinos.io as their lightning address.

they'll have an introductions note, maybe boost a few other random notes, and then most of their notes are replies.

they are topic based. all replies follow a similar theme or topic.

some of them follow the same half a dozen people. this has recently changed though. the new ones follow random people, especially people that reply to their introductions note.

these bots will break WoT. be careful out there.

GOOD MORNING NOSTR.

LIVE FREE. 🫡

GOOD MORNING NOSTR.

LIVE FREE. 🫡