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Going to bring a spare no-key coldcard on an international trip to see if I get any static about it going through security and customs.

My Christmas gifts came early this year, when nostr:nprofile1qqs8h3cvaq9gnrxyk0sh6zvjlgtjvn033rsusp4kpm25gf8gks04dpspz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn9jd67kc visited the nostr:nprofile1qqs254dy0xkkjdxsl4u08k7cs52u689q67s3pqfwwyfcp4va7avcjdgpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68yanfv4mjucm0d5q3gamnwvaz7tmsv95kgtnwduh8xarj9e3hy8kl5q7 HQ and delivered some 🍄 products, along with a sample of nostr:nprofile1qqsppdnxpjc82jlm3yn9gawhv7p4nm69a3f80rg5ycw305xned2s0hcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejz7k9e8cp pine tar soap AND an nostr:nprofile1qqswp94gnm4epqsgjkndl4lnd8krzdj5u4mzuppdtxksdymkty63g7gpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqgswaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5gs6adx silly node.

MERRY CHRISTMAS ME! And thank you all! PV

Nice seeing some merchants accepting bitcoin.

Still no services I'd ever use or need.

Do dogs like sauna??

Hm, are you sure they're an account you muted before? Sometimes spammers use the same name, but their account is actually different (the "npub...")

Otherwise, you can use mutable.app to check your mute list and manage/add/remove accounts there manually.

I tend to use jumble in the web these days as I host it myself, or nosotros.app.

For mobile apps I am fairly happy with Amethyst, which I feel has the best balance of proper supported features and usability. I know some other mobile clients look and feel "shinier", but none come close to Amethyst in terms of support and reliability I've found.

some clients like amethyst and jumble support it.

private mutes can't be seen by others and are encrypted. public mutes can be viewed by everyone but are more widely supported across different clients.

be liberal with your mutes/blocks and conservative with your arguments on #nostr. save your energy for something positive. feeding the trolls is a -EV game.

IMHO. :CatNerd:

Remember you can do private or public mutes.

I spent the last two summers in El Salvador while my son was attending an immersion language school.

I spoke with locals as much as I possibly could and was fascinated to hear their perspective on Bukele.

One particular guide I spent two days with (any national parks there, you MUST be accompanied by a certified tour guide).

He was ex military and seemed rather liberal based on his opinions on same sex/trans rights etc.

—Anyway, he was active during the 2020 gang roundups.

His opinion was similar to every one of the people I spoke to.

They all love the fact that, the country went from a war torn 3rd world shithole to one of the safest in the world.

There’s virtually zero crime there.

Bukele’s approval rating is listed at ~90%

I even spoke to a surf instructor dude that spent some time in jail just last year because of his relationship with a woman who’s brother was a gang member.

Even he said, he’d never trade back to the previous system. He now loves his country.

Just my 2c

I haven't but will look into it. I've considered starting a mobile hydration business but my area is saturated

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.

Republicans are just racists. That’s their platform.

I am the only human not sick in my house. The rest of the family has been pretty ill this week. I hate seeing my wife and kids sick

#prayerchain if you have time keep my family in your thoughts and prayers.

Come give us a visit, you and your family are most welcome. Where is your wife from in Colombia?

We are based in Colombia, in La Sierra Nevada, and we sell mainly into the US, because there is a demand there, and the delivery channels are very smooth and easy. We will always do our best to meet the needs of anyone outside the US, it’s just going to come with it own unique delivery cost profile. We would love to pair up our cacao with your amazing mushrooms!! Is there a potentially collaboration to be explored here?? They really are a dream combo! In the back of my mind, I would really love to create a cacao block that contains tumeric grown from our land, medicinal mushrooms grown from people we trust, cinnamon, vanilla, all the healthiest goodies out there that this community are working hard to bring to the table. That would be a very potent cacao to bring to market!

That sounds interesting! TY

just removed the fees on Strike's get paid in bitcoin feature.

we now have no fees on DCAs, no fees on direct deposit conversions, and unlimited free withdrawals on-chain.

we are on a mission to build a Bitcoin company for Bitcoiners. let me know what else you guys need to adopt Bitcoin and change the world together

Bitcoin will probably continue to appreciate in value. My primary concerns for the future are

1. Insane taxes, including unrealised gains

2. Blacklisting of non-kyc wallets, including the threat of criminal charges if you use one or accept payments from one.

3. Arbitrary list of wallets that, if you ever trade with them, you are guilty by association.

Lol you think App Store is safe from this?

Do you prepare the substrate for others to inoculate?

See, that’s where you lose me. Capitalism is like this religion that can come and go as it pleases. Never really here, never really there and avoids all accountability.

I am not for use of force, and I don’t want to see any State intervention. This is why I am trying to convince these “capitalists” to be the change. Stop chasing profits and hoarding wealth.

Providing value or exchanging goods does not go against Bitcoin or Christianity. Profiting off others labor is opposed to both.

Your life changes the moment you leave your country. trust me on this

Ecash is worth so much engineering effort! Not because it's custodial but because of the freedoms it enables.

Arguing about who was a bitcoiner first is bad opsec and irrelevant.

I agree with everything else in the above note. ☝️

Qualified Merchants = sole prop NO LLC

Are LLC not qualified?

"The roll out is anticipated to begin in the second half of 2025 and is expected to reach all eligible Square sellers in 2026, subject to applicable regulatory approvals.

Square’s new, native Bitcoin For Businesses offering will build upon its Bitcoin Conversions feature launched in 2024, which allows qualified merchants to automatically convert a portion of their daily sales into bitcoin."

Prep that mute button fellas…

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