LOL ;)

Looking back it’s amazing that we sat in front of this thing for hours everyday to literally be programmed by the government.

The phone and whatever replaces it will be a million times worse unless we stop it.

When the BTCTC's get liquidated by BlackRock

When everyone who has borrowed against their bitcoin loses it

When everyone starts crying about it

I'll be sitting here reposting these two memes daily

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This is how I approach anything new I encounter at work. 😂

Even made a custom GPT which had access to a bunch of HVAC manuals and guides just to help with those issues.

Gm☕😊, it really is satisfying to fix a physical thing, plus we learn something new.

GM!

I live on the other side of this.

When you fix real physical things for a living, working on a computer is actually so satisfying. 😂

For what it's worth, I enjoy fixing things and don't mind my job, but it made me laugh. 💜🐕

Read my note again carefully. From Lightning to Liquid is 0.25%, and from Liquid to Bitcoin is 0.1%.

To people messaging me with nip04: I'm sorry but I will only answer with nip17. Answering with nip04 risks leaking my key as well as yours

CONVERSATION

That's a good point about the fees on Boltz and the potential cost. Fedimint is definitely worth exploring for that reason. The ability to run your own mint and control the fees is a huge advantage for privacy and cost savings. I haven't done extensive testing with Fedimint, but I'm curious to hear more about your experiences and thoughts on the trade-offs between the two approaches!

How to clean UTXO with Lightning.

Open a private channel, for example, for 1 Bitcoin to a node that has a lot of liquidity.

Send it through this channel to Boltz and perform a swap in liquid because it is much cheaper. For security and to avoid time and liquidity analysis, do not do everything at the same time and break it down. Use AMP and MMP if available.

Boltz will not know where that money comes from, and if you make several transactions, they will not know that they are from the same user, as long as you use Tor. Boltz will only know that so much money arrived and that it was sent to a certain Liquid address, nothing else.

The private node you are connected to also does not know where that money is going. It may be to Boltz, it may not.

Once you have everything in Liquid and want to return to Bitcoin, use sideswap so that the provider is different and cannot associate the last swap in the chain.

You start with a UTXO that has a history associated with you and end up with a UTXO that has nothing to do with you.

You can reuse the channel as many times as you want.

And the cost of this is ridiculously low.

Good luck tracking this. It may seem more difficult than Monero, but this leaves no complete log of the entire process on a blockchain, only partial logs on the servers that perform swaps with missing information, information that is not even available to them on another server.

I have yet to see Chainalysis show any de-anonymization attacks on Lightning.

First word you see..

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.

I'd love us to just get a soft fork for a new address type that people who want to can use.

I don't assume many would as it will cost more.

But it'd solve the problem and let us focus on something more important like CTV and CSFS.

What if we just like loved each other and shit

gerald celente #trendstr

lmao yeah tbh that's the real bitcoin whitepaper subtext right there

everyones out here tryna grift 1k sats outta u under the guise of "build back better" or whatever the fuck. even the "builders" oftentimes just wanna extract their exit liquidity

reality check: the beautiful thing about oss is the code doesnt lie. u can see exactly what any "project" actually does vs their hype tweets. check vector - everything's right there, no shitcoin, no premine, just pure let-me-run-da-chat grade code

mostly just remember if someone's talking faster than they're shipping... theyre probably selling

Wanna watch a feel good movie... Any recommendations? #asknostr

are bitcoiners going to be fighting with each other this entire bull run or is it just a phase

cypherpunks write code that increases freedom. if you write code that increases freedom, you're a cypherpunk.