It is for freedom that people will come to decentralized technologies and it isn't until that freedom is threatened that they'll come.

Was Bitcoin meant for the masses or will it be an asset for the 1%?

Is unit bias real and for the masses it is too expensive and they will instead look for faster cheaper scams from the "cryptos"?

#asknostr

🚨JUST IN: Parties in US v. Storm ask for exclusion of time on post-trial motions to decide whether prosecution will retry charges

Potential motion to retry convicted charge possible

You know your husband loves you when you call on your evening walk and say "I'm bringing a pig home" and he just says "ok."

Pignelope is waiting her on mama to pick her up but enjoyed eating from our garden in the meantime.

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My painting, "Capybara on a Hill"! I painted it in Clip Studio Paint.

#art #cute #capybara #painting

GM

99% of people don't care about learning more every day, don't care about taking care of their bodies every day, don't care about trying harder every day and being better at their jobs.

If you strictly adhere to these three characteristics, sooner rather than later you will reap the benefits.

Socialism wants 99% of the population to benefit from the efforts of 1%, but no, my friend, life doesn't work that way. My effort is my effort, it will never be yours. It's not just about selfishness, which is totally legitimate and normal; selfishness is a survival instinct. What's abnormal is the generosity of giving away your work. Besides, it's about defending my tribe, my family. The benefit is for my family, not yours.

Take it as you will, you socialist piece of shit, but that's the way it is. If you want something, work like I do.

No pain, no gain.

Yesterday, I suffered a deep cut/tear in the palm of my hand. An hour later, I went to do my routine of pull-ups and push-ups with my bloody hand and did my duty, with pain and blood, but I did it. My wife didn't understand.

For some, it may seem silly, or perhaps the madness of a crazy person, but in the absence of someone to teach me about life, I had to figure it out on my own, and sports are what have taught me the most. Sports teach you to suffer, they teach you to resist, they teach you to be patient in life.

This action, as I say, seems silly, but it's like giving and polishing karate kid wax, unconsciously preparing you for the hard times in life.

Are you going to give up at the first hurdle when things don't go your way or cause you some pain or discomfort? NO.

Always move forward.

Maybe these shitty stories aren't useful to anyone, but if they've been useful to me, maybe they'll be useful to some crazy guy too.

Post: Do sports even in adverse weather conditions. Don't give up because of rain, wind, a volcano, a hurricane, an alien invasion, or a meteorite.

Post2: I forgot to mention that today they amputated my hand, but it was a good story to tell.

Just googled this guy...never heard of him before. Impressive 😅

In seemingly small, but important ways, going through the discomfort and inconvenience of moving from Apple to Linux and Graphene has given me a substantially greater ability to appreciate—and actual appreciation of—freedom tech. Warts and all.

This has made the time and trouble worth it, many times over.

If you want to more deeply experience and understand what's possible and where it's all headed, I highly recommend making the switch.

✨ A Joyful Pause ✨

Let's stop and reflect on something positive!

Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments or just enjoy your thoughts on your own!

Deep breath ...

What’s your favorite way to start the day?

#joyousjoyness #reflection #happiness #joy #QandA

Why is trending / top music so bad?

Is it just a sign of me getting old? 😆

She didn’t care about the system being destroyed, but more about that person now being the richest person on earth, what if he or she had bad intentions with all that fiat money? It just intrigued me

Everything that's wrong with Bitcoin in one picture

Hear me out, PONS: Proof Of Non-Spam for Bitcoin!

I was discussing with nostr:nprofile1qqs0m40g76hqmwqhhc9hrk3qfxxpsp5k3k9xgk24nsjf7v305u6xffcpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet59uq3xamnwvaz7tm0venxx6rpd9hzuur4vghsz8a8pz about various usage of ZKP for Bitcoin, and he came with this intriguing idea to use Zero Knowledge Proofs to fight spam on Bitcoin (without breaking some designs such as BitVM).

Initially I was sceptical, but the more I think about it, the more I am convinced that it could be a very interesting idea to explore.

Just to be concrete, here are some examples of valid / non spam materials that could be theoretically proven via a system like PONS:

- Schnorr public keys: Prove knowledge of corresponding private key

- Hash preimages: Prove knowledge of data hashing to claimed values

- Taproot scripts: Prove leaf scripts are valid Bitcoin Script, not arbitrary bytes

- Merkle roots: Prove correspondence to actual Merkle trees of valid elements

As usual, I like to experiment and play with ideas, so I started to implement a proof of concept of this idea, for the minimalistic simplest example here that is: prove that a public key is "real" and not a "fake" public key.

You can see in the demo video below the following flow:

- Generate a Schnorr public key and its corresponding private key

- Create a digital signature of an arbitrary message

- Run a Cairo program that verify the signature against the public key

- Generate a STARK proof of the Cairo program execution using STWO prover

- Verify the STARK proof using STWO verifier

Sorry Luke Dashjr I know that you consider Rust as a woke language haha, but for now we have the STWO prover and verifier only implemented in Rust, so I used it for the demo. We can easily integrate the STWO verifier in Bitcoin Core or Knots via ffi though (as we already did in another POC).

So of course here it's completely overkill to use a STARK proof for this and you could do it much more efficiently without a ZKP, but it is to show how the architecture could look like end to end.

There are many interesting design questions, like how to make nodes / miners play nicely and prioritise transactions with valid proofs, how to incentivise the generation of proofs, how to make it efficient and not bloated, etc.

I am curious to hear your thoughts on this idea, and if you think it could be a good idea to explore further.

Palantir stock just won't stop going up.

Incredible.

Rare photos of Bitcoin mining in Bhutan

Amazing how a tiny land footprint, no eWaste (all rigs are recycled), no water footprint + 100% renewable energy just contributed 40% of Bhutan's GDP, funds environmental and infrastructure initiatives such as their airport rebuild. They even used Bitcoin to raise the salaries of govt workers by 50-65%

Any country with surplus energy can copy from Bhutan's playbook, but I'm happy its nations like Bhutan, El Salvador, Paraguay, Ethiopia who are discovering this first because it's helping to address global wealth inequality one nation at a time.

what books should i add to my reading list?

looking for books that improve your life, finished reading Atomic Habits last week and looking for more books just as valuable

here are some of my picks:

- Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath

- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

- How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

- Atomic Habits by James Clear

what would you add?

#asknostr #bookstr #books

GN

What I Learned from Running a Lightning Node

I set up a Lightning node because I wanted to understand how it really works, not just in theory, but in practice. I was curious about the mechanics, the tradeoffs, and whether it made sense to integrate it into my regular Bitcoin use.

After a few weeks of running it, here’s what I’ve learned.

It Works—But It’s a Lot of Work

Technically, it functioned as advertised. But the operational overhead quickly became obvious:

-You need to keep the node online 24/7.

-You have to open channels and decide who to peer with.

-You need to manage liquidity—both inbound and outbound—which is its own ongoing job.

-If you want decent routing success, you need to monitor and rebalance channels regularly, or automate it with scripts and tools that have their own learning curves.

It’s learnable. But it’s just constant. And for someone who has limited expertise, time and other priorities, it quickly starts to feel like a low-value use of attention.

What Actually Makes Sense (For Me)

In the process, I realized that running a Lightning node doesn’t make much sense for my actual needs. What does make sense is a layered, practical setup:

-Custodial LN wallets are fine for small, everyday payments where convenience matters more than control. I treat these like digital cash—fast, simple, and low-stakes. That’s what I have with the Primal wallet.

-Non-custodial LN wallets are a good option for holding moderate amounts of spending Bitcoin while still retaining control of the keys.

-For larger amounts or infrequent use, sticking with regular on-chain Bitcoin and a well-managed cold wallet with additional hot wallet setup if required remains the best balance of simplicity and security.

Running a Lightning node only makes sense if I were actively routing payments, running a lightning service, or doing something that really required deep integration and control. I’m not doing any of that, so why burn the time?

Takeaway

I didn’t stop because it was too hard. I stopped because I learned enough to know it’s not the right tool for how I actually use Bitcoin.

The experiment gave me exactly what I wanted: clarity. And that was worth it.

GM Nostr, I've got a dog training question. Princess Aurora has started resource guarding and it's getting to the point where I've got to stop it. I don't understand why its happening because there is always food available here, one of the three dog bowls upstairs is always full and I keep her dog bowl full in my room.

However, she is not eating her food anymore. Instead she guards it fiercely and attacks the other dogs if they even look in my room. She instead takes the other dogfood throughout the house which is not a huge problem as there is plenty, but it's just not behavior I want to encourage.

I've been taking her food away when she's not eating it but she's just whining like she's starving, but will still not eat the food when I set it out just goes back to guarding it. Wtf is happening in her brain and how do I correct her behavior?

#asknostr #dogstr

More #sketching.

The dark wizard sneaks through the castle’s catacombs.

#fantasy #art #ttrpg #artwork #mastoart #illustration #drawing #sketch #characterdesign #osr #wizard #artist #dungeonsAndDragons #procreate

And no sign of core changing their behaviour on this?

Does anyone else get anxious from holding more fiat than necessary?

#asknostr #bitcoin

Great, enjoy life, make memories !

Thanks for sharing.

On the financial part...

I understand most reasoning.

But I came to a point I hate the Governments, Fiat, the System, so much I can't by any sane means support it any more.

And not doing so is hard.

I hate that "you own nothing and be happy" but to some extent that IS needed to starve the beast.

If you buy something you pay VAT, if you own a house you pay tax etc etc.

And by paying them you give them the means to control, abuse you...

We are paying them the money they use to suppress us...

And I love nice stuff.

I put aside a funny #Bitcoin amount some 7 years ago with the funny idea this will be a saving account for my dream car.

It became twice as expensive since then, but I can buy a new one from that little saving I set aside...

To come to the conclusion I still love that car but no fu.. way I'm going to spend so much and knowing a large part of it will go to government....

#Bitcoin really changes you, or perhaps I should say shows you things you have not seen so clearly before.

Now I have some financial independence I'm more thinking about how can I use it to make this a better place, help others ?

How do most of you take it when you try to explain bitcoin to people and they just talk shit or blow you off ?

#asknostr #sats #question #thoughts #question #btc

Imagine the balls it takes to not only hodl what is now $1.1 Billion worth of Bitcoin for 14 years from a $7800 cost basis, but to just send it all out with a single click and no test transaction.

MSTR's bitcoin is not even being hodled, you morons.

It's literally liquid and for sale through the stock shares.

Saylor and Bitcoin Treasuries do not take BTC off the market, they resell it to the market as a product.

Wake up!

Yep exactly what I was thinking, which is good news!

Seems that `Peak Mining` is the new miner in the pool.

Yeah it’s hard to see them in that situation but probably best not to “bitcoin purity test” them as was mentioned a few episodes of on Rock Paper Bitcoin ago.

math is confusing

🪧 Just a pawn czeching Kingtillionaires.

That’s the sign I held up at the end of Michael Saylor’s keynote nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r.

Not for attention — but for alignment.

Not to provoke — but to reveal.

I didn’t come to clap for corporate alchemists leveraging fiat debt to hoard Bitcoin.

I came to remind the room that **Bitcoin wasn’t made for the kings**.

It was made for us — the pawns who move.

---

### ♟️ *Real Life Chess*

Some would say my life is a mess,

But they don’t know,

that I’m playing chess.

And although freedom is nice,

It doesn’t come,

without sacrifice.

My opening move,

Is finding the groove,

Then I developed the skills,

That gives tyrants the chills.

Satoshi’s my guide,

While I move like a knight,

Dodging the banksters in black,

While I plan my attack.

Pawn checks King,

Then rook takes pawn,

Another wise rabbit appears at the spawn.

As kings, queens and bishops fight for the center of attention,

One pawn has come through,

with a genius invention,

That changes the structure of the current convention,

And propels us forward into another dimension.

This invention transformed the board from Chess into Go.

Please enter the realm of the eternal flow.

Now hierarchies crumble,

And as I watch the cunts

of the black army stumble,

I look for the signal within all the scrumble,

the eternal pulse says:

**"Stack sats and stay humble."**

With the endgame in sight,

we switch black to white.

We follow the light,

We trust our might.

Then we meet our queen,

Feel suddenly seen,

And gracefully live,

in the between.

It might be Go it might be Chess,

But one thing is certain,

**It’s a beautiful mess.**

---

This poem isn’t just a metaphor.

It’s a **roadmap** for the pleb who chooses dignity over dependence.

It’s a mirror held up to a Bitcoin culture that’s forgetting its roots in favor of Wall Street cosplay and applause for Cantillonaires.

Because let’s call it what it is:

Debt-financed Bitcoin buys are **Proof-of-Stake in fiat**.

They are not heroic. They are opportunistic.

They are not revolution. They are reallocation — from the center of power, using the tools of that power.

But #Bitcoin doesn’t belong to boardrooms.

It belongs to the builders, the miners, the teachers, the sovereign individuals, the ones who gave something up to *earn* something real.

It belongs to those who make *the move*.

---

### ✊ So here’s the move:

🛠️ Build outside the gatekeepers. nostr:npub1s0veng2gvfwr62acrxhnqexq76sj6ldg3a5t935jy8e6w3shr5vsnwrmq5

🚫 Refuse applause for fiat leverage.

📣 Disrupt the narrative.

🎯 Use non-violent direct action to **check power**, wherever it hides.

🧠 Stay sharp. Stay sovereign.

⚒️ Stack work. Not just sats.

Because the endgame isn’t a new pig on a throne.

The endgame is *you*, awake and aware,

transforming from pawn to queen,

and *watching the kings fall* — not through violence, but by **moving better**.

---

Bitcoin doesn’t need another billionaire.

It needs a billion plebs playing with intention,

moving through sacrifice,

flowing through the mess,

and building the future from the ground up.

We’re not here to crown a king.

We’re here to **flip the board**.

#PlebCheck

#ProofOfWork

#CheckTheKing

#NonViolentDirectAction

#RealLifeChess

#StackSatsAndStayHumble

This is for the builders, the plebs, the poets, the radicals, and the knights who still move sideways in a rigged game.

Tagging a few, to reach more plebs:

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