December 21. Happy solstice people of nostr!! ☀️

To celebrate, we are offering 21,000 sats back at ANY nostr merchant of your choice. No coupon code necessary, just head straight to your favorite Bitcoin-based business and buy something with sats. Post your PoW here, tag your vendor, and get zapped up to 21,000 back on your order.

Go buy that book you’re been wanting to read, buy some soap or candles for your neighbor, maybe some handmade chocolate (with or without the funny stuff), honey, maple syrup, jam, a bottle of wine, some steak or lamb chops for the freezer, comfrey or dried fruit, jerky, candied pecans, craft cannabis, pottery or a new shirt. Hand-dyed fabrics from Mali? Cacao from Columbia!? Why not! Pay for it with sats and it’s on me. Let’s celebrate the Bitcoin #circulareconomy together this December 21.

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Fine print: Offer subject to terms and conditions. Void where prohibited. First 21 nostriches receive up to 21,000 sats each. No bs, no cheating. Spend sats, get zapped. 🤙

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Love you nostr 🧡

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Thanks to nostr:nprofile1qqsy0l9geae5xj7kntnmsyzpse7anm7nans786ky7mpayrmzu6jga6cpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqprpmhxw309akk7mnpvshx5c34x5hxxmmd8gurqwpsqyshwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtndd9hxguewvdhk6tmwdaehgu30wccj7amnuy33np for hosting the machine at MintGreenHQ, and to nostr:nprofile1qqs0998q5r0p445gyvhemf0jjsmhcdw3g9z7269c595nnn9k3de5ysgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtctr3am3 for the BEPSI machine code which we forked.

Hackers Are People Too is a 2008 documentary, filmed at two hacker conferences, piecing together interviews with dozens of hackers - young and old, male and female - to create a cohesive, accurate portrayal of the modern hacking community and attempting to deconstruct the negative connotation of the word 'hacker' so often thrown around by the media.

At just 45 minutes long, the documentary does not try to delve into the vast technical history of hacking but rather focuses on the people, the community and the good put forth by the hackers of the world. Using just the words of the interviewees, the movie allows the people to speak for themselves and to answer the question, "What is a hacker?"

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A judge just ruled that Tornado Cash is to be removed from the OFAC sanctions list.

The court found that Tornado Cash smart contracts do not constitute property, finding that Tornado Cash software is not covered by the IEEPA's.

The court found that while "OFAC’s concerns with illicit foreign actors laundering funds are undeniably legitimate," "perhaps Congress will update IEEPA [...] to target modern technologies like crypto-mixing software."

"Until then," the court found, "we hold that Tornado Cash’s immutable smart contracts (the lines of privacy-enabling software code) are not the “property” of a foreign national or entity, meaning they cannot be blocked under IEEPA, and OFAC overstepped its congressionally defined authority."

This is hugely good news for anyone developing privacy software and will likely have a positive impact on Roman Storm's trial, where it is debated whether the court may criminally charge the developers of software.

s/o to all the people that fought for our right to privacy on this ❤️