Smashing it!

Woahhh looking forward to listening to this one! Is Rick Rubin a Bitcoiner?

Yeah i like using it for stirfry and fajitas

Yeah it really does feel like magic!

GM! Drinking a cup of Bom Jardim from Brazil, roasted by La Cabra this morning and it is delicious with notes of dark chocolate.

Going to be working a new custom import connection for nostr:npub136hk9wu6xnrz64kfaapsvgc5rfnylz4djlx4w30w66h6cy48vhws3gth6q today. The goal is to provide a custom connection so that transaction events can be bulk uploaded from csv files without Clams needing to specifically support that wallet / exchange. Hoping to make the UX just decent enough as this is really for the last 10% of wallets that we won't support without significant demand. Otherwise we would be just creating connections without making headway on the other features we want to implement.

Gonna have to stick with it now i have sunk cost

It is comfy though

Bought a new keyboard to make sure i don’t rsi and now i am back to a beginner typing speed 🐌

Sauna and then a swim in the ocean pool watching the sunrise really is the best way to start the day.

Hoping this starts going mainstream. Went to a nice restaurant a while back and they said that they would have to serve me steamed fish if i wanted it without seed oils. Wild to me that even nice restaurants have replaced all of their fats with seed oils.

Have been trying methylene blue as a supplement to see if it can improve my focus, memory and energy. So far nothing super noticeable except for green pee!

GM!

This is a big one, let us know what you think. Also I must be a bit of dipstick, I cannot for the life of me work out how to properly do threads

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Yesss! Sauna and then a swim in the ocean pool in winter is my favourite combo. Mind becomes clear and muscles relaxed.

Oh i thought you had converted the app from Tauri to a gui crate, so was curious about the performance difference if that was the case.

What was it using with the equivalent Tauri app?

https://clams.tech

Give this a go and let us know what you think. Very early days for this app with a lot more to come.

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The title of that article though. How does a decentralized network do a series A 🤣

Ah okay nice one. Haven’t migrated to v2 yet.

They lost the analog masters?!! Damn

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Try again from Damus.

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@R1F /create a moving string section that is recorded in high fidelity.

Curious how others go about it. I feel like i need a good bit of time with someone to explain the why and the how is an even longer conversation.

I have tried a few ways to get my local farmers onboarded to Bitcoin.

First I start by just asking if they will accept Bitcoin as payment to get a sense if they are curious or not. Most of them show a vague interest, but they also feel like it is too much to learn or understand. I usually let them know that if they have any questions or need help getting setup that I can help them out with that. After that I try just talking to them about it each time I see them unless they are getting annoyed by it haha.

I then tried printing up those Bitcoin for local community brochures that are open source and added my own little bit of informational insert to it and gave them to all the farmers I had built a relationship with over a year or so. I was hoping that giving them something to read while they have downtime at the market that clearly lays out the benefits to them would spur them to ask for more info. I provided a bit of info about myself and my technical background and gave them some contact info and offered to meet them for a coffee to discuss.

Not one of the merchants has taken me up on that offer unfortunately.

Not sure what it is going to take to move them towards accepting Bitcoin. I think culturally Australians are less amenable to Bitcoin compared to Americans. The depreciation of the AUD may have to get a lot worse before they reach out, but at least they know who to talk to if they do want to learn more.

Learned a little more how the legacy credit card system works and got a good bit of motivation to hasten my family's move to a full Bitcoin standard.

We go to the local farmers market every week and we had noticed that sometimes if we went to a shop after our farmers market run, our credit card would decline despite having plenty of available balance. This continued happening and got so bad that our card had become unusable. I eventually got fed up enough that I called the bank to find out what is going on.

Turns out that when we make many payments in quick succession to many different vendors, it triggers the banks fraud detection. So each week we would go to the market and our card would get suspended. Someone from the bank would then need to manually review our txs, see that it is the same farmers market pattern and then restore our card. Apparently due to black friday sales, they have been swamped with fraud detections, so they have been slower at restoring cards, making our card unusable. The bank said that essentially this process is going to happen every time we go to the farmers market. I am honestly shocked at how rudimentary their fraud detection algorithms must be. Surely not too hard to see that the pattern of txs matches the same pattern at the same time, every week.

I had no idea how much manual work was going in to keeping our card working. Obviously Bitcoin fixes this and really reiterates how much of a step improvement Bitcoin is compared to the legacy system.

The only reason we use a credit card over a debit card is that in the case of it getting compromised, then the bank is on the hook for stolen funds, which i my experience makes them much more responsive.

We are going to stop being lazy and just get out cash each week from now on. Much better privacy and better for the merchants. Long term I really want to start getting paid in Bitcoin and then hopefully find some good tools for interacting with the legacy system. Really need to orange pill my local farmers, but that is proving difficult after already trying multiple times.

Is there a tool that you used to make this video?