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Exploring all paths to a bright, harmonious and prosperous future world ... "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." Ancient Greek Proverb

hahahah they were great days 🙃 surfing storm drains, wakeboarding flooded rivers, climbing 10 storey buildings using the drain pipes, cliff diving at 8yrs old - got a royal roasting for that one! ...

learning from mistakes is part of the process. sharing with others so they don't make them - just plain humbling.

thank you

in the world of Bitcoin mining decentralisation is evermore important. breaking the grasp of the big pools is critical to the defence of Bitcoin. this could be a game changer, bringing mining back into the homes ....

https://www.mining.build/latest-updates-3nm-system/

found a new energy source for your btc mining rig ...

Replying to Avatar calle

Ok I've built this for fun and it's incredible.

A Cashu gateway: it's a normal Cashu user who has a Lightning node (or another Lightning payment backend). Everyone can act like a gateway as long as the mint supports ecash HTLCs (NUT-15).

If you as a Cashu user know of such a gateway, your wallet can send your Lightning payment request to it instead of to the mint.

The gateway responds with an amount (it can take a fee). If you agree, you send it ecash, and it pays your Lightning invoice. The process is atomic.

What does that mean? Let's think a little ahead and imagine this was deployed on a significant scale.

Even if the mint is full KYC for peg-in and peg-outs, a user could still make Lightning payments anonymously with the help of other users.

(!!! this alone would be huge !!!)

This would also enable us to make on-chain-only mints which opens up a whole new way of building mints (reserves could be in a multisig for example).

Crazy part: Gateways can be lazy and use custodial Lightning backends. The user doesn't care as long as the invoice gets paid.

Yes. That means you could use your Strike or Blink or LNbits account to act as a Gateway for a Cashu mint you like.

There could be many of crazy people like you. Nobody would ever know. Neither the mint. nor your LN service provider would notice. They all just see invoices.

It gets weirder. Gateways could use *another Cashu mint* as an LN backend. I know sounds like an inception nut but bare with me.

A user of mint M1 can ask a gateway of mint M1 to pay an invoice. The gateway could pay the invoice via mint M2 and receive ecash from M1 in return.

I always thought "you could run a mint for a thousand users on a Strike or a Blink backend without them even noticing the smallest thing".

Now I think you could probably run a mint for 100k users without them noticing, if there are other gateways handling payments for everyone.

Note: this is still experimental. Only paying works right now over the gateway, not receiving (more complicated).

The bast part though is that it doesn't require any Cashu protocol changes and the mints don't have to give you permission to do this.

It's all pretty nuts.

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whilst I don't understand all the tech, I get the concept. congrats and thank you.

I am sure I speak for many that don't understand half of what you devs do and we often stay quiet in case we look ignorant. We are all hugely appreciative. and we are trying to learn 🙃 keep up the great work, we are with you, even if you don't hear us.

I don't know how that team does it. mountains of information everytime they speak. great show and thanks for the share.

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I sat down with nostr:npub1g0587hzzckcncxfm78n0996qe2s58nspy29wf02tqcj5sdzcpj4q6j40hv

and Mark Goodwin to discuss the carbon credit coup that is being rolled out over the next few months.

The coup combines all of the nauseating buzzwords, carbon capture, smart contracts, and earth observation.

Must watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_trBBunj2WI

the work this team does is beyond incredible. journalism as it should be done. how we begin to catch up with this (100 year head start) may seem a staggering task.

until you look at where computing, ai etc are heading in the next several years. never have we ever been able to move so fast .... they can be controlled. -vigilance and persistance coupled with their fiat system decay. their time is running out. ours is just beginning.

thanks for sharing.

shamefully ignorant comment given just a few recent leaders stalin, hitler, bush, schwab, khomeni, armin, ghadaffi ....

this is a journey we all want to follow ... hope you can share more. currently in a guinea pig country where even buying a coffee with sats is next to impossible. settling to fiat ..... little like doing a decathlon.

it goes back to the days of confucious ...

"man with hand in pocket, feel cocky all day"

they take it litterally and have both hands in pockets

the day will come when they just feel a d***

Replying to Avatar UNCLE ROCKSTAR

It's been almost 7 years since I created this nym.

Tonight, I'm off to nostr:npub1rjtrs7xqdvj3588r9njrexh2n750j7jdwx9qs543nutmdsj6ljaqpfmp8a to see how nostr:npub1rj7eh0eu3skwcyr5adpcjwxft9z4yjdspjryq6gynqw2j49f9a3quqjpw2 captured parts of my journey since I committed myself to serving #Bitcoin.

It's been an incredible ride, culminating in February this year, when I gained complete freedom.

There is nothing I can't do now. If I wanted to get a place on a beach and party for the rest of my life—I could do that.

Yet, small things still tie me to this nym, things that I find enjoyable and meaningful. So, while I’m still here, I might as well have fun and help guide others toward their freedom.

Especially many of you who have supported me over the years. You are the main reason why I ended up being able to do so much.

It is kinda like what happened with Emperor nostr:npub1zfytz6ktce3av2svlfpl0e79e44tnskxmvlpkcmc7q0xct3qa49swvm60l... he created nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg and did what he vowed to do, but many others also helped along the way. There is so much to learn from how he obsoleted BitPay!

For me, the Bitcoin Film Festival in Warsaw will be a celebration of all that has happened in the past few years. If you're coming—hit me up; I’ve got drinks waiting for you!

live the dream 🙃 huge congratulations. enjoy warsaw.

love the questiion - love the answers

gotta love nostr!

BTC halving when Nostr realises its only been having half as much fun as they are gonna have in the future.

greeting nostriches 🙃

the large jappanese translates to ....

"drink all this and you will be ........" (can't read the last word)

the small japanese translates to: "you have been warned"

hope that helps 🙃