Imagine if we could put an AI agent in charge of maintaining your Amethyst. You could just write a DM to the agent asking for a new feature, the agent would change the app in place and give you back to test. If things work well for you, you could submit the change to your friends. If enough of your friends like and use it, the main repo could take that in. Maybe that's the future we want.

⚡️ 📉 NOW - Amazon's stock after getting obliterated by the White House for announcing they will be displaying "tariff prices" next to products.

This is your regular reminder that the Liquid signers are not public. Storing money in Liquid is “trust whoever Blockstream says you should trust but you don’t get to know who they are”.

Fine for money you are happy losing, but even storing your money in Coinbase is way more sane.

I wake up twice a night because of air raid alerts

Good morning fellow psychopaths 😏

I'm rather disturbed to see so many cryptography/security luminaries online complaining about how Telegram is not properly encrypted, Durov never had users privacy in mind etc. etc. as if this concept of clean, pure privacy is what matters, or what matters to users. It reminds me of a pattern I've seen commonly over the years: people think Bitcoin was about anonymous transactions when literally every aspect of its design was focused on censorship resistance and that's a different thing, even if yes they are connected.

The example I've used in the past is: suppose you're on the plane out of a totalitarian country where you were an activist against the regime (flying out of the UK for example), at *that* point you care that your transaction is in Bitcoin and not Tether on TRON, not because Bitcoin has privacy (it doesn't, at least in general - the regime could be watching the txs on chain in real time). And yes mining centralization etc. etc. , yes that is *the* threat against Bitcoin's success, not a lack of amount blinding.

Coming back to Telegram, its failing is centralization, not lack of privacy. People use(d) it in such large quantities because of a *lack of barriers to enter and use it to communicate* (including communicating with huge groups of like minded people), *without censorship* (so you could support Hamas or Russia or whatever is verboten locally). Most people who use it are not so stupid as to think it isn't public. And while some *are* stupid, falling for scams etc., so what? That's called real life. It's the same story with money. Not bitcoin on its own but "crypto" (yuck, sorry) generally has won over so many despite its technical jank, because there are no barriers to entry. Sniffy US "cryptographic elites" like Green, Marlinspike and Zooko telling us all how inferior Telegram is are, as so often in this field, missing the forest for the trees. Their reluctance to protest Durov's arrest is honestly disgraceful.

(Btw Signal is kinda very good at secure messaging, yeah, but it *does* have centralized servers, too)

Well said 🙏

Ale!

Otroctvi urcite neni retro...

Jak by rekl David Icke: "Nejhorsi jsou mrize, ktere nevidite."

The ham club us now on NomadNet 49211e7e48be74b0a7c9c19be98b9d54:/page/index.mu

Welcome to ecash zaps: we throw random checks at you from no-name banks and consider a photo of them as “proof of zap”

Also your money is on the nostr! (wait… it’s on a custodian… what benefit does this have again over nostr login to a custodian) nostr:note1rp9n3pzrsawk2t6kqr8rhkrh527m93y7aph0aqah9ghtw9hgat9qgv6tcx

Super kniha pro pochopení, jak funguje řízení a rozhodování na decentralizovaném blockchainu.

A také náhled do nedávné historie bitcoinu, která ale už dnes vypadá jako celá věčnost.

Doporučuju!

Phase 2 of my griefing of Bitcoin Testnet has commenced. 🫠

Update ke stavu reseni mych dvou nezdarenych nakupu bitcoinu v ATM v Praze (penize zustaly v masine, LNBTC transakce spadla)..

1) ATM od GeberalBytes

Nakonec se mi podarilo spojit se s zivym clovekem na supportu. Velmi rychle jsme overili, co je pricinou problemu (problem sel za GB) i na jeho reseni. Poslali mi behem par hodin penize zpet v litecoinu (protoze LN jim docasne nejelo), rychly a opravdu vstricny pristup 👏

2) ATM od Bitcoinmat.sk

Po dvou telefonatech se supportem a dvou emailech mi po cca 10 dnech napsali, ze v ramci reseni se musim overit, tj. poskytnout email, telefon, obcanku, natocit se na telefon... Tak jsem jim odepsal, ze v ATM nakupuju prave proto, abych se tomuhle vsemu vyhnul. A ze jim radeji svoje penize v tom bitcoinmatu necham, at si je uzijou. Jeste ted nevychazim z uzasu, kam az to dospelo 🤦‍♂️👎