Posting on this topic / reposting as reminder because the US Congress just screwed bitcoiners while California Legislature once again ramrodded forward a bill to plot seizure of bitcoin and other digital assets. There has also been a court case in California recently where CA decides it's going after self-custodial wallets and people acting in some capacity to engage in a governance decision. Pretty soon the only way you will be able to have your own assets free from arbitrary government seizure will be either a network of secret locations around the world that you manage for multi signature keys for any transaction, or, deep space custody where your assets are effectively vaulted (created in low earth orbit and never leaving there). No other method will be sufficient although everyone will need trusts, will and corporate entities to help keep digital assets out of the hands of the State.
I'm happy when this happens.
- EL SALVADOR -
La Cruz coffee farm is sponsoring the local boys football team, San Francisco Juveniles. We came with new kit on a Saturday match day but the opposition didn’t arrive due to lack of transportation. As a bare minimum the children should be able to travel to play football with decent equipment, something we take for granted in Europe.
We have spoken with the management and, thanks to our proximity to @BitcoinBerlinSV , the famous Bitcoin circular economy, we have agreed that all donations will be spent exclusively on services/merchants who accept Bitcoin. Therefore every donation will not only support youth football but also help contribute to one of Bitcoin’s most impressive use cases.
Updates on how the Bitcoin will be spent and which merchants we are spending it with, will be provided as the project develops.
https://geyser.fund/project/elsalvador
thank you for posting
hey has anyone done stuff with rails? as in, the sort of rails mentioned in this article? https://www.theblock.co/post/356180/amboss-rails-self-custodial-bitcoin-lightning-network-yield-service cc: nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac nostr:npub10m6lrv2kaf08a8um0plhj5dj6yqlw7qxzeag6393z352zrs0e5nsr2tff3 nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc
That is hope for the future.
Haven't seen anybody talking about this, apparently a Mexican naval vessel crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge?
https://media.nicecrew.digital/f69860ee51b4f07054a562ec58e79643458e899422ea26a495d673f7e1b748b9.mp4
"hush, it didn't happen!" As bridges fall down
How is this surprising?
Many years ago under different administration(s) anyone could have asked, based on whatever the then current level of U.S. national debt to GDP, what year did they think the federal government of the U.S.A. might end up at around 120 percent, ending up numerically where Greece was at in 2008 when PIMCO pulled the plug on investments? That is, when people in Greece were starving and jumping off buildings? Granted that is NOT what is happening now in many parts of the USA (though in some parts people are economically disadvantaged, starving, in communities with serious addiction problems, etc).
But my point is we didn't ask this sort of question enough. Four years ago, per Trading Economics said, “Government Debt to GDP in the United States is expected to reach 120.00 percent by the end of 2020, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the United States Gross Federal Debt to GDP is projected to trend around 125.00 percent in 2021 and 122.00 percent in 2022, according to our econometric models.” But it turned out those figures were too optimistic! We exceeded those figures before then. Look at the money printing machine go!
The United States recorded a Government Debt to GDP of 124.30 percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product in 2024. It's only going up from here, along with the overall M2 and the value of bitcoin.
Hey - is there anybody out there?
My dad went in to the doc recently to get a cancerous tumor operated out. The surgery went well but we were on edge wondering what would happen. Several days after the surgery they sent him home. Sigh of relief. But now am getting a flood of texts just a day after he got home, he's now headed back to the hospital, pain in the stomach and throwing up. I know nobody likes cancer but man I really, really hate it right now.
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Nice - thank you.
Why is my WoT score 0? Have I said or done bad things or is there something I need to do to get it slightly above 0? Asking for myself.
You asked, we shipped. Everything you need to know about Primal's Article Editor.
#primaltutorials
https://blossom.primal.net/01db833016e97628c9b00119f92ca3bd68c04d7f28c22720d31c6828e65e8e8e.mov
Neat! Can I do that on Amethyst or Coracle, too?
Introducing Following._ — a simple way to create and share follow packs on Nostr!
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I spent months complaining that someone should build this... and eventually realized that someone had to be me. So here we are.
I also leaned heavily on AI during the process — it’s never been easier (or more fun) to create apps for open platforms like Nostr. If you have an idea, you really can just build it. No gatekeepers, no permission needed. Just ship it.
Peace
Thank you
But if one's mind is never used to cut through bad ideas to find the good ones, the mind will rust and become duller without even being used. Cut with the mind, and keep the knives clean.
Struck by lightning ⚡ - hehe!
seems like common sense imho..
why would you have to block 100 people?
Good to see, Jack, keep up the good work. Keep it simple, don't lose sight of what's important, the mission / vision, the long term goals, and your sanity. Take time to make time. Cheers.
The assholes at Vultr decided to ban me yesterday.
They asked for explanations of what I used my server for and when I said "nostr" they just told me to get the fuck out.
They gave me 12 hours to access my data and migrate all my dozens of relays and services. All while treating me like a fucking criminal.
I searched for an AI to help me migrate all my stuff and found this Warp tool that is pretty damn good.
It came up with a single one linger to deploy my strfry instances, do strfry db migration, configure HTTP server, everything! I can even tell it "hey, setup blossom on blossom.f7z.io and only allow my pubkey to upload stuff"
Damn fucking wild.
A lifetime ago, I used to be a sysops at a hosting company. Migrating this much stuff would have taken me about a week of fighting old package versions, database migrations, updating configurations.
Now I literally gave root access to an LLM to help me out and it literally did it extremely well. The setup it accomplished is already better than my very ad-hoc deployment I had in my previous server.
Warp terminal app (with ref-link, just like nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn taught me) 👇
"the assholes at Vultr" - I mean that does kind of say it all. But also, Apple, because they will ban anything.
What do you think the best way is for Nostr and Lightning things to be found everywhere? Rephrasing. Not the best way, some of the best possible ways, like the top two or three that come to mind and just make the most sense?
The State, vs #bitcoin - if people are choosing the former to vote for, isn't this just an example of natural selection? If the actions of the State / different countries are so extreme that what results are not only an abundance of violent conflict but also the most innovative people leaving certain countries and regions (and even migrating away from earthbound jurisdictions into outer space, similar to Blockstream's method) then that's just the logical end result of smarter choices to migrate away from massively unstable systems and stupid people with too much power.