Buy #Bitcoin, no claims on Bitcoin.

The more corporate or well known they are, the less you should be excited that they're buying corn. We'd be better off at 30k and people just now realizing Bitcoin exists.

With the new DAC8 directive coming into effect on January 1, 2026, all exchanges with European customers will be required to report all their transactions to local tax authorities.

Remember that there are P2P exchanges without KYC, such as Bisq and Robosats. In my case, I have been using Robosats for years and have had zero problems.

If you don't do anything to defend yourself, don't complain later; you're just a coward.

Woah. The gloves are being dropped on the battle for the Digital Euro.

Tomorrow I’m starting the build guide for something I’m calling ZeroSentinel.

What ZeroSentinel does:

- Turns a $15 Raspberry Pi Zero into a fully autonomous privacy node

- Builds a locked, authenticated WireGuard tunnel home from anywhere

- Runs your DNS through your own Unbound resolver with DNSSEC enforcement

- Blocks ISP meddling, hotel rewrites, captive portal tricks, and upstream manipulation

- Monitors its own health every few minutes

- Sends you an encrypted Nostr DM when anything breaks

- Enforces no-fallback DNS and drops all traffic that isn’t in the tunnel

- Works behind travel routers, double NAT, carrier-grade NAT, and hostile networks

- Makes your phone’s “VPN” actually mean something

Your own infrastructure. Quiet. Cheap. No subscriptions. No external services.

bitcoin is anarchy. we have rules, no rulers,

Any of you who’ve taken the Covid poison really need to detox asap ! It’s a ticking timebomb for your immune system. Nobody says it because everyone is too scared. But to heal you have to embrace it and move forward . Don’t shoot the messenger 🤷‍♂️

#AI

I'm still running Bitcoin Core 28.

I think Ordinals and everything related to them that came afterwards are all spam and that spam should be treated as such.

I also don't feel comfortable running Bitcoin Knots, only because I feel that it's not battle tested enough for me to switch over.

That said, if I was new to the space and new to running a node, I'd run a Bitcoin Knots node because it aligns with those beliefs.

And then I'd probably have similar apprehensions about switching to Bitcoin Core due to 30s wild changes, turning Bitcoin into a really bad file server.

Run whatever you're comfortable running.

The main point is that you're running a node.

That is very weird. Probably a bug somewhere then. We will find and fix it.

holy fuck, the whole 300mb of default #mempool just got jacked full of spam just now on #bitcoin

i've never seen such a spike of transactions as there was in the last half hour.

languages with lower complexity, like #golang have an edge over complex languages like #rust #c #c++ #javascript #typescript even when you are vibe coding because the LLM doesn't have to work as hard to interpret the code correctly. you end up using a lot more LLM credits to do things that the design and architecture of the language also makes more complex.

complexity is the devil in engineering. all else being equal, the simplest implementation is more likely to not just be simpler to build, but also more reliable and performant.

LLM coding agents concretely demonstrate this by how much work they have to do to parse the language. shitty complex language = expensive LLM bill.

Anyone else has the issue with #amethyst, that after unfollowing a # topic you still get results in your timeline?

Is there a way to reset those settings? The topic no longer shows up in my follow list, but I cannot ged rid of the results.

#asknostr #amethyst

as much as i want the new #iphone. i’m thinking #grapheneos is the route i should take. its smarter — i think. no? #asknostr