On macOS Sonoma, connecting either Mullvad or IVPN while Tailscale is connected blocks all web traffic. This does not occur with Proton VPN. I cannot figure it out.

Anyone have insights? #asknostr

Another interesting learning:

A portion of Zoomers are becoming remarkably technically competent, far more so than the Boomers who hold most of the world’s wealth.

The Minecraft to hacker pipeline is real, as evidenced by this call. And it points to a trend of technically incompetent older Bitcoiners getting their wealth stolen by technically competent younger Bitcoiners.

While theft is unethical, this trend does follow “the law of the jungle.”

The way to protect yourself is to study Bitcoin to understand it from first principles. Holding it isn’t enough. nostr:note12cp8ef9w9pmuu8qt6r7crdatvq8dpm8cx77c5q07zx7dg2363css3exp72

Can someone explain what this post means?

Tried to copy the blocks, chainstate, and indexes from an Umbrel node...redindexing did not work, resyncing now #NewNode

Running noStrudel with nsec.app on diy start9

How is this bond tax working in US? If you end up no guilty you get refound or you just get extorted that money to not being beaten up and raped in prison until hearing?

thanks! suica good for long inter city travel?

anyone used a Japan Rail Pass?

seems like a great deal if you’re taking a lot of daytrips

Halving party in Austin, TX about to get started 🤙

want book changed u?

i might read it?

Home office

Telegram is shit and getting shittier every day. I use it way too much.

Durov sounds like a manipulative liar and I had never heard Tucker Carlson before, looks like he is just a scammy journalist by the way he speaks.

Also from where is Durov taking the money he is spending like crazy on Telegram with no revenue for over 10 years?

But it's surprising that Telegram only has 30 employees (?) -- if that is even true. Good news for the scalability and viability of smaller operations that we don't need huge companies and all their bureaucracy and overhead.

How a new class of geothermal turbine that uses sCO2, which can be utilized anywhere on the planet simply drilling into hot rock, in conjunction with low cost directed energy drilling methods could make geothermal the best "nuclear" energy source, without the impediments around nuclear energy developing nations face to the greatest degree.

That it will bring so much energy growth to both developing and developed countries, it will reduce the global price of oil and the global conflict of the petrodollar by disincentivizing war, regardless of how quickly bitcoin defunds it.

That due to on grid energy project development inefficiencies and corruption in Western countries, developing countries could initially take the global lead in this transition, especially as behind the meter markets, including bitcoin mining and AI datacenters continue to grow.

That the company working on this also has the capability to greatly improve natural gas turbogen efficiency, reliability, and upfront cost, including operating on sour (corrosive) natural gas that goes almost entirely unutilized.

At some point, I will need to broach the subject that these technologies are coupled to the military industrial complex and where I fit into all of this on the materials & manufacturing side. I will bring something up that may seem a bit bizarre, but true, which is that until it is demonetized, advanced weapons systems will be made: better that some of those profits go into bitcoin. We'll see how that goes. I'd say it's still better that the US retains upperhand over CCP, etc, but don't need to go into that.

Finally, I will bring up how more than just the things themselves, it is how they are achieved that matters. That I am trying to put together a fully bitcoiner LP base as this could mark a turning point of bitcoin beginning to fix things in a big way at the level of atoms, with orders of magnitude greater efficiency than the fiat world. And that if bitcoiners do not take ownership of this arc, it will be inevitably consumed by the shitcoiners who are diversifying their mimetic territory through faux industrialism (e.g. A16Z, et al "American Dynamism").

Ultimately, I hope Jack will be interested in continuing the conversation.

good morning

IIRC, there’s a greater risk of your IP being exposed with p2p. And Keet hasn’t open sourced its code, or at least a few months ago when I had convos on here about all this, they hadn’t yet. Not sure how to search Nostr to find all those convos.

For what purpose? Keet seems very good for video calls. Signal has best network effect, simplest UI for to onboard regular people. SimpleX best privacy of the three.

A Bitcoiner should be able to secure a seed phrase, run a full node, verify a change address, send a LN invoice, pay a LN invoice, explain inflation, buy non-KYC coins, have an inheritance plan, send to cold storage, hold through volatility, show how altcoins are dumb.

LARPing is for rent-seekers.

How often do you consider the fact that you don’t see reality, just human reality tuned specifically for our evolutionary fitness and survival. And if you were to see the full breadth of reality you’d be incapable of surviving and reproducing and would quickly go extinct?

Because for me it’s like once a quarter.

When cooking - I only get one hand dirty. (with a few exceptions.)

I keep my knife hand clean and dry.

You’d be amazed at how this contains and controls mess. Not to mention preventing cross contamination.