Btw, I think it is $300 for the kit/hardware.

What is the cost for someone to use Square as a POS? I think some folks are trying to get people to onboard to square so they can pay in bitcoin and that seems like asking to much of a small business. If they have square, ask to pay in bitcoin. If they don't get them on nostr:nprofile1qqsrttavxu07a35ut9v72za7y2gxgmlpztzr0gt3wl27zpthe89g4rspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtc3f4xvy to accept out of the box.

What is the cost for someone to use Square as a POS? I think some folks are trying to get people to onboard to square so they can pay in bitcoin and that seems like asking to much of a small business. If they have square, ask to pay in bitcoin. If they don't get them on nostr:nprofile1qqsrttavxu07a35ut9v72za7y2gxgmlpztzr0gt3wl27zpthe89g4rspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtc3f4xvy to accept out of the box.

Has the treasure been found yet?

I thought the same thing playing with Manna wallet the other day....

Funny that a lots of zap verification are failing because of cloudflare and dependence on lnurl. Maybe we should make that nostr native somehow with bolt12 zaps.

Best guess on what percent of the internet is down?

any flutter devs out there? how do i make an app reconnect and resubscribe to relays after the app has been backgrounded / slept. this is my largest hurdle with the divine flutter app.

*a week or two

things are down right now that shouldn't be down

It feels like the internet is breaking much more frequently than it used to.

The fucked up state of the centralized web.

Confessions of a MicroStrategy Investor

A letter no one asked for, but everyone should read before handing their Bitcoin dreams to a man in an orange tie.

—

Dear Fellow Bag-Holders, Future Therapists, and Anyone Still Pretending This Was “Strategic,”

I write to you today not as a proud MicroStrategy shareholder, but as a man who has stared directly into the mirror and whispered the words:

“Bro… what have you done?”

Look—I’m not embarrassed that I invested in Bitcoin. Magical internet money is fine. It’s pure. It’s incorruptible. It’s literally math wrapped in electricity. Beautiful.

I am, however, deeply embarrassed that I gave a company with salaries, leases, marketing teams, HR reps, and a snack budget my money… so they could buy that same magical internet money at a premium, wrap it in a corporate costume, and then somehow—somehow—turn it into something that trades at a discount.

A discount.

On Bitcoin.

In a Bitcoin bull market.

Amazing. Inspirational, even. If there were an Olympic event for turning alpha into coupons, MicroStrategy would sweep the podium.

Do you know how helpless you feel when your investment thesis boils down to:

“I believe in Bitcoin so much I outsourced it to a business with overhead.”

That’s like loving organic vegetables so much you hire a Fortune 500 company to grow them for you under fluorescent lights, at 4× the cost, while their interns eat half the crop.

And yes, yes, I get it—leverage, strategy, blah blah blah. But when your CEO has to juggle debt payments, stock issuance, Twitter theatrics, and a line item called “orange tie dry-cleaning,” you start to wonder:

Was I investing in Bitcoin… or in the world’s most complicated meme account?

At this point, even my Bitcoin-hating uncle respects me more than my financial advisor does. At least the uncle says he bought gold once because “it was shiny.” My excuse? I thought buying a corporate wrapper around Bitcoin was “efficient.” Efficient at what? Converting sats into operating expenses?

If I wanted discounted Bitcoin, I should’ve just bought Bitcoin.

If I wanted chaos, I could’ve bought a shitcoin.

Instead, I bought a stock that somehow blended both worlds. A schrödinger’s tradfi-wrapped-Bitcoin derivative that lives in a simultaneous state of premium and embarrassment.

So here I stand—an MSTR shareholder.

A man who believed.

A man who delegated.

A man who now understands that true self-sovereignty means never relying on a corporate board to stack for you.

Godspeed to us all.

And please—next board meeting—cut the marketing budget before the coupons.

Sincerely,

A Recovering MicroStrategy Apologist

P.S. If anyone needs me, I’ll be buying the underlying asset directly like a grown adult.

Overwhelmed as one would be, placed in my position.

Such a heavy burden now to be the one.

Born to bear and bring to all the details of our ending

To write it down for all the world to see.

But I forgot my pen,

Shit the bed again, typical

————-

MJK on stacking generational wealth but forgetting the seed phrase

I won't denounce Hitler because I refuse to be framed by the Post War Consensus.

When will you denounce Lenin?

When will you denounce Marx?

When will you denounce Stalin?

When will you denounce Mao?

People are under a spell with this stuff. It's about time that it ends.

Hitler is not compromising Ametica's sovereignty, Israel is.

Hitler is not committing genocide in Gaza, Israel is.

Hitler doesn't matter, Israel does.

Nostr is good for that.

I've missed you, brother. Been spending too much time on X lateley.

You have to denounce Hitler to participate in American politics because Israel is in control of American politics.

If America was in control, then we'd be denouncing Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao.

Everyone would have to crawl through coals denouncing communists.

A wallet with a profile sounds like a terrible wallet.

Anyone else having difficulty updating their profile on manna wallet?

The default behavior in the Breez SDK is not to expose the spark address in the bolt11, so you can't do what Evan showed above. However, since spark reuses addresses (currently), you can still apply stuff like timing attacks to discover the underlying address. This should be addressed soon by the spark team (they are switching to a dynamic address model).

nostr:npub1nv5c7sj2zxtjv7uayp2q2mneymm39mfp93wjhl5287y6yp6ey02qrsjhcn anything?