Robosats do its best to preserve the privacy of users, if you avoid re-using robots you can basically leave no traces of your trade on Robosats.

There are some payment methods that are absolutely private such as F2F, but as any other option it all depends on the liquidity.

But still, people have the preference of using these other non-private options for trading, which for some people seems to be not ideal, but not absolutely terrible.

The payment method is a free text so people can use even chickens for trade. What we can't do, for sure, is to ban payment methods. It's reposability of each user to DYOR and accept the counterparts of the method they choose to trade.

Taking into consideration Robosats is not responsible of the fiat side (where the privacy is lost), what are our options?

If you moved to El Salvador chasing the #bitcoin hype, now might be the perfect time to reconsider. Living under a dictatorship isn’t worth it!

Most people are blissfully ignorant of stuff like this and love their capture. We have a massive Stockholm syndrome problem on our hands.

Give me your thoughts on the Israel Palestine conflict and I’ll send you a fat zap.

Fuck them. Let them live in their dystopian shit. We have to build our freedom socities somewhere else. Vote with your feet guys.

“Please zap me”

When I was a young man first learning to cook for myself I thought clove of garlic meant head of garlic. This seemed like an acceptable amount of garlic flavor in the finished food to me so I stuck with it.

One day I cook for a new girlfriend and she corrected me. I did not marry her. I married the first woman who also loved garlic enough to eat my cooking my way.

This post may or may not be related to my previous post about body odor.

Anyone still drinking the trump koolaid is just a fucking retard at this point

We are just getting started. BUCKLE UP. #Bitcoin

since nostr clients have largely ignored relays, autopiloted their users into them, collected a majority of zaps and monetary support, and been so public facing while not caring about any of this stuff in a cavalier way..

guess what, clients are more likely to get fucked than relays. so it's hilarious actually, that nostr's knee jerk reaction was "what will relays do?!!!". The same shit we always do pinkey.

they may try to pawn it off on relays, their attitude suggests this, but any attempts to mess with nostr is just gonna go straight to the play store and put the hammer down there first.. NOT some json backend thing the client doesnt even show.

Imagine you could lay the foundations for a free and open digital society of the future but all you care about are Bitcoin treasury companies.

It doesn't get more lame than that.

Or France

Versailles, then Madame Guillotine

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - The White House announces a new 90,000 square feet, $200 million dollar White House ballroom with construction starting in September.

"The White House State Ballroom will be a much-needed and exquisite addition of approximately 90,000 total square feet of innately designed and carefully crafted space, with a seated capacity of 650 people — a significant increase from the 200-person seated capacity in the East Room of the White House."

"The White House Ballroom will be substantially separated from the main building of the White House, but at the same time, its theme and architectural heritage will be almost identical."

"The project will begin in September 2025, and it is expected to be completed long before the end of President Trump’s term."

"The site of the new ballroom will be where the small, heavily changed, and reconstructed East Wing currently sits."

Hellow nostr, I joined recently after all the shitshow regarding online identity verifications.

I discovered this tech last year, though I never really posted anything, but I thought I'd give it a go, so I created this account !

I love aviation, as well as tech in the broader scope !

Nice to meet you everyone, looking forward to interesting discussion with y'all !

#introductions

KYC/AML normalized, #DigitalIdentity for financial transactions.

Covid normalized #DigitalIdentity permissions for physical travel.

"Child safety" is normalizing #DigitalIdentity for online services.

Now, Palantir is being rolled in to index all of this activity in order to generate risk scores for every person.

The pieces are coming into view.

It's extremely dark.

For everyone out there trying to get rich and ahead of everyone in life, my personal realization is to take a breath and relax. Life is way more than that. It feels a lot calmer and blissful when you just go with the flow.

so, today i finally got the wireguard mesh going with 3 remote endpoints and my pc as a 4th node in the graph, making a 6 path complete graph.

turns out to be more difficult to figure out how to actually use the mesh to hide my IP than to make the mesh. the wireguard install script i have been using doesn't account for mesh setups. the tricky part has to do with routing, since with multiple exits, which do you pick? so by default it picks your lan's default gateway, ie, no proxying. but all the links to the remotes is redundant, if any one of them fails or gets disconnected, the others remain available.

so what i'm doing is setting them all up with, to start with, developing this idea of a reliable inbound route, installing the reverse proxy i have on the first one, onto the other two, and then i need to figure out how to set up the DNS so it directs to any of the three endpoints, so they all will then serve as redundant reverse proxies, all of them pointing back to my test relay, specifically. as part of the process of developing this idea for a reliable relay routing service to allow people to set up a link to the three nodes in the remote mesh with the reverse proxy, so that any one of them can forward a connection back to their relay. so, port 3334 since that seems to be the default.

so, automating this configuration, it has to make two changes, one, to add a new pubkey and new ip address for the new client, and also add an entry in the reverse proxy with a new subdomain that points to that new ip address.

probably the simplest way to do this is to create, to start with, a REST API endpoint in the reverse proxy, that allows reconfiguration. it will use nip-98 auth, and a simple administrator address list in the environment variables, and there will be get and set configuration methods. i already have an adequate tool to work with this, it can do simple upload/download operations (already is used for import/export).

the difference would be you would just set your valid nsec in your environment, call the reverse proxy API get endpoint, and write that to your config cache. then, you can edit it, and then with the same tool upload the new version, et voila

then, the process of adding/removing wireguard peer entries... probably should roll it into one, so you update the config, and it rewrites the proxy mapping and adds/removes entries from the wireguard configuration, and then triggers them to reload. since i have to make the wireguard service restart anyway, and it's barely any downtime, might as well just do the both this way, so i just need to figure out how to control the permissions to allow this...

and then ugh the automation and the interface.

If you could choose one online retailer to start accepting Bitcoin, which would it be?

If you only scroll your follow list, you're not gonna discover anything that's not how it works.

I love AI. Honestly, I do. I use it every day—I’m even using it right now to help me write this post. It’s replaced my search engine, plans our travels, helps untangle thoughts, spot patterns between seemingly unrelated things, and yes—I’ve even benefited from a little vibe-coding (don’t judge me).

But there’s one thing about AI that absolutely drives me nuts: its overconfidence.

It’s cringe, in the same way a guy I used to work with—let’s call him Joel—was cringe. Joel was undeniably smart. He knew just enough about almost everything to sound convincing, which often gave people the (false) impression he was an expert. He was your classic Reddit warrior: hyper-argumentative, knew enough to be dangerous, but rarely had the depth to back it up.

I’m admittedly a bit anally autistic—read: obsessive about accuracy—and on a handful of topics, I’d consider myself genuinely knowledgeable. So it became a sport: catching Joel confidently spouting half-truths on subjects he clearly didn’t fully grasp. He wasn’t dumb—just way too sure of himself.

Not knowing something isn’t the problem. Pretending you do? That’s the problem. There’s real humility—and value—in saying, “I’m not sure, but I think it could be this.” That’s how real conversations, discoveries, and learning happen. But don’t cosplay as an expert unless you are one.

And that, my friends, is my beef with AI. It’s Joel. It’s smart. It’s useful. But it’s also way too confident, even when it should really shut up. I’ve caught it out more times than I care to count, speaking with the swagger of certainty when it really should’ve said, “Look, I might be off here…”

Tread with caution. AI might be useful, but like Joel at the Friday arvo smoko table, be prepared to call out: “Mate, no. Just no. You’re wrong. Stop being a douche”.

Your AI will thank you for it, (legit it usually does).

AI (intelligence) + Nostr (distributed) + Cashu (anonymous) + Bitcoin (permissionless)

routstr.com

Marjorie Taylor Greene reveals Congress just voted to send $1.6 billion dollars to foreign countries, including $15 million to teach African soldiers how to avoid getting AIDS

The bill included

- $15 million for African soldier AIDS prevention education

- $118 million for overseas flood assistance

- $500 million for Jordan

- $500 million for Israel

- $500 million for Taiwan

She created amendments to stop the funding for all of this, Congress voted to reject all of the amendments and force taxpayers to pay for it all

Insane

It’s not that I don’t care about online child safety. It’s the opposite.

I deeply care about online safety for children, but I’m not for granting more power, control, censorship, and surveillance to entities with a history of abuse in the name of preventing harm. True protection for children includes shielding them from overreaching governments. Governments are the biggest abusers.

Online child safety begins at home. Most parents are better equipped to protect their kids than governments are. Empowering families with safety tools, education, and awareness for both parents and youth is the key.

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Silence

The absence of reaction

The emptiness of the international community

carries more weight than the concrete reality of suffering in Gaza.

(Drawing by Davide Dormino)

It’s true Saylor brought the discussion mainstream, but he also coopted the narrative and is clearly pushing for it to be used a database rather than money.

He tells people not to spend it and to borrow against it. He advocates to stop making changes (because then bitcoin could serve more people as a currency). He preaches “trust; don’t verify” by laughing at self custody and mocking proof of reserves while touting an audit by other mega corps instead.

He tells everyone the work is already done and there’s nothing else to do but buy bitcoin in their brokerage or bank account and leave it there: literally the exact opposite of the lesson the whitepaper taught us.

Bitcoin has no value unless it’s being used by as many as possible. As decentralized as possible. A world where 10 governments, 20 banks, and a few hundred companies own the vast majority of bitcoin is a complete failure of the mission and yet if you follow his lead that’s the world you end up in.

I’ve had friends tell me they’re not spending their bitcoin. HODL they say. And yet they’re spending their fiat nonetheless. They’re still spending money but can’t bring themselves to use bitcoin for purchases because this influencer “super maxi” says not to.

People will do everything but stay humble and stack sats

Nostr is my favorite social network I’ve ever used. I love so much about it here, not least of which are the other people using it who value a better future online than the legacy centralized platforms give us. Its openness allows anyone to easily communicate and send/receive payments, instantly anywhere in the world, with no KYC necessary. It is truly incredible. That same openness also makes it a really appealing and easy target for scammers who want to take advantage of legitimate users. I will never apologize for calling out bullshit scammy behavior when I see it.