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Fuck your overlord. Self-sovereign bitcoin or death Disciple of the Austrian school of psychology and economics Call sign: KZ4OC

Every now and then I experience a dream that feels so real my body repels at its climax and kicks me back to this dimension. Coming out of the dream though, I’m able to stay in a sort of euphoric limbo for a short period of time. Not only do I vividly replay what feels like my life’s highlight reel, but I also get the sense that I’m consciously shaping and guiding footage as I observe it playing out in high fidelity.

The surest way I’ve found to induce this phenomenon is by eating ice cream 30 mins or so prior to falling asleep. A closer look into this hypnopompic state may very well be a promising angle to tackle the hard problem of consciousness. Just a reminder that this reality is amazing and there is so much to explore

That sounds epic. Driving up to Brazil? This weather is dreary af though, I’m about to flee to the tropics. Next month I’m going back to Costa Rica, a month in Santa Teresa and Uvita

Same, I’d go back in a heartbeat. Visiting for business or pleasure?

How would you respond to Claude, which thinks you’re mistaken:

The quantum computing threat to Bitcoin’s elliptic curve cryptography (specifically ECDSA) is based on well-established quantum algorithms like Shor’s algorithm, which can solve the discrete logarithm problem exponentially faster than classical computers. This isn’t speculative physics—it’s mathematical complexity theory. Whether this represents a practical threat depends on when/if sufficiently large, error-corrected quantum computers are built, which is a legitimate engineering question.

Bitcoin is an ingenious cryptographic and economic system, but describing it as “falsifying quantum mechanics” or being “the proof physicists could never produce” conflates different domains:

• Bitcoin’s proof-of-work is a classical computational process using SHA-256 hashing. It creates consensus through thermodynamic cost (energy expenditure), but this doesn’t make it a “quantized system” in the quantum mechanical sense.

• Quantum mechanics describes the behavior of matter and energy at atomic scales—it’s been empirically validated through countless experiments (from the double-slit experiment to quantum entanglement to the technology in your computer’s transistors).

• Bitcoin operates entirely at the classical computational level. Its “blocks” are not quantum states, and mining doesn’t involve wavefunction collapse.

You seem to be using “quantum” metaphorically (discrete blocks, probabilistic to deterministic transitions) while arguing against quantum mechanics as a physical theory. Bitcoin’s discreteness doesn’t disprove quantum superposition any more than a digital clock disproves general relativity.

Don’t. Listen to your body, it will show you the way. Sun, weights, carnivore, no drugs, and plenty of sleep is the winning combo. You got this!

Here are some parting thoughts on Buenos Aires. It’s all the beauty of Paris but with more freedom. Spanish colonial and belle époque architecture line grand boulevards, happy and healthy people fill sprawling lush green parks, and if it’s not a gorgeous woman, a dog greets you around every corner. The city was designed and the people built to weather triple digit inflation. LABITCONF, steak dinners, and an epic shred sesh at a wake cable park were icing on the cake. My only regret is missing La Traviata at Teatro Colón… and well not being fluent in Spanish 🥴. Nevertheless, glad I jumped on a plane. Life is good when you escape the screens and spend the best money. Now it’s time to monkey around in Costa Rica. Shout out to nostr:nprofile1qqsy6sd8e0ym0algfpx32jv64y2pcule5wwrwewvt4trr7s705mr8nqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcpzamhxue69uhhqctexgcjumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tccwxzcw, nostr:nprofile1qqs8y6s7ycwvv36xwn5zsh3e2xemkyumaxnh85dv7jwus6xmscdpcygpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejz76jympz, and @Tomas Suárez for being excellent hosts and even better friends, it was fun af. Until next time boys 🤙🏻

Just booked my flight. See ya Friday! I’m so stoked

Replying to Avatar Micael

YOLO

Haha true, but I don’t speak Spanish. If I book it, it’ll be in the next couple of days so I’ll let you know!

Replying to Avatar ODELL

Lopp’s piece paints a shitty picture of Luke. A side to him I hadn’t seen. Now I don’t trust knots or core

Yo do you have any insight into whether knots plans on instituting a formalized review and release process?

It was a honeypot anyway. Super Testnet has great analysis showing why

Oh ya good eye. I thought it said one pool. My point still stands 😈

War of attrition. Don’t let them win. Pace yourself, it’s a marathon

Replying to Avatar JeffG

The slides for a recent Black Hat talk on vulnerability in many nostr clients is up.

https://i.blackhat.com/BH-USA-25/Presentations/USA-25-Kimura-Not-Sealed-Practical-Attacks-on-Nostr.pdf

I haven't had a chance to read through it completely yet but seems like most, if not all, of what they lay out are known issues and things we've all been working to fix for a while now. 🤷‍♂️

Black hat and def con are captured. Pure fud

lol they’re too retarded to produce anything of value so they keep pumping each other’s bags

Yup, and they wonder why my generation is so depressed and anxious. We can’t forget daddy govt either, they bomb everywhere else so we have nowhere to go. Fuck them all, in the ass, hard

I think the most insidious baggage that comes with that generation is that they, most of them unwittingly, turned the housing market into an investment asset, pricing us out

Ya my take was us centric where the castle doctrine, second amendment, and stand your ground laws are still largely intact