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10,000 free sats, no cashu needed. works in coinos and other CLN nodes! cheers 🥂
bug your wallet dev to support these.

2025-10-23 17:49:06 UTC

it was my first night in new york and i was already offered coke by a random stranger. they go hard here it seems.

2025-10-22 01:16:48 UTC

instagram: you can only post 3 minute reels or 1 minute stories
nostr: here’s an entire movie we don’t give a fuck

2025-10-21 20:12:04 UTC

Some thoughts on the AWS outage and where nostr can really shine when it comes to app and data resiliency #vlog
https://cdn.jb55.com/s/local-first-nostr-rant-lq.mp4

2025-10-20 20:17:45 UTC

my cat gets depressed when i'm gone and I had to facetime her. cats are so dramatic

2025-10-16 16:56:54 UTC

cashu is not bitcoin.
giving up sovereignty for custodied privacy is not a tradeoff I will ever make. not to mention it completely screws over node runners by forcing everyone into custodial solutions to transact.
run nodes, they are the most private thing you can do.
#note1n7k…dzkw

2025-10-15 17:35:58 UTC

i love unions in C. they allow you to pack different types of data into the same memory address.
here's an example of an 64-bit string type that you can pass around as a native word on 64-bit systems. it can either be a binmoji or a 6-character null-terminated string.
https://jb55.com/s/c2f103981fc42c30.png
this enabes the nostrdb metadata table to be super smol. caching reaction counts for any emoji or 6-length string can now be done inplace, only requiring two 64-bit integers worth of storage for each metadata entry, no string tables!
https://jb55.com/s/5a7db440305743cb.png
succinct, cache efficient data structures are my happy place

2025-10-14 17:36:06 UTC

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welcome!

2025-10-14 17:18:54 UTC

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is this actually weev ?

2025-10-14 16:02:55 UTC

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yeah definitely, the currently image gallery is just temporary until we improve it. good to know on the tor issue we'll look into it

2025-10-13 22:44:45 UTC

🧌

2025-10-13 17:12:00 UTC

*opens x*
algo feed: heres 100 people still arguing about knots and core 🙄
noone cares what network policy you have configured on your node. bitcoiners need to go touch grass.

2025-10-10 18:55:07 UTC

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i have this person muted so I'm going to assume they said something retarded about knots

2025-10-10 14:46:16 UTC

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right, but what is the point of viewing a relay as a feed? It would only make sense if it’s a curated feed of people. An algo.

2025-10-10 14:45:22 UTC

I made the mistake of going back there for the knots vs core debate on the damus account. it only made me more miserable. that algo is toxic and encourages nonstop fighting. The fight is still going on, it’s so boring.
#nevent1q…ktf2

2025-10-10 14:29:50 UTC

it seems when people say they want relay feeds, what they really are saying is that they want curated feeds and algos?

2025-10-09 16:36:53 UTC

I think its unappreciated just how dangerous stories are. it can lead people to believe many untrue things, which causes many societal issues.
Maybe we are biased from our days where if you didn't listen to your ancestors by the fire, then you would be eaten by wolves. I think we're over-tuned and assign a higher truth value to stories we are told.
The only way to fight this is to gain a rationalist mindset to fight back against our inherent biases (aka brain malfunctions), but rationalists seems to be on a decline these days. Asking for evidence is *not cool*, what is cool is believing every and anything people tell you 🙄
Make skepticism cool again. #lesswrong

2025-10-08 12:04:24 UTC

I did it! first lucid dream after trying. Was very eerie, i talked to an “entity” in my dream. Here’s my journal from tonight:
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I haven’t slept well tonight and stayed up from 2 to 4am. I knew this was prime dream time since it’s easier to fall into REM sleep. All i did was fall asleep with the intention to lucid dream.
I spawned in my bedroom and immediately became lucid. I spun around to stabilize the dream which worked. I opened the door and noticed i had subtle sensations of touch on the edge of the door. I pushed the door aside and continued.
I floated downstairs. It definitely felt like floating and not walking. The lightning was dark. The frames on the walls were all crooked like abstract art.
I floated into the living room. It was still dark, but it started to light up with beams of light all around. Some red light, some white. Was still very abstract, until I saw her.
A woman appeared, sitting in the corner of the room where the dining room table is in real life.
She was very beautiful, she looked like Marilyn monroe.
I floated up very close to her to make out the details of her face. She had curly white hair, red lipstick, makeup. Her face looked *very* detailed and real. Almost more real than real life.
She asked me a single question: “what is the earth meant for”
I stumbled to answer and said “to produce knowledge “
she was laughing at me stumbling to answer. Like she knew anything I said was going to be wrong, or she knew what i was thinking before i answered and was laughing at that, or maybe laughing at my thought process.
—-
Then it ended. Very ominous question. Thats all i got for now. Until next time #dreamstr
#nevent1q…9qr5

2025-10-04 20:01:29 UTC

US military: you know what would be a good idea? let's nuke the moon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119

2025-10-04 19:47:18 UTC

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you could conceivably create an embedded bitcoin node that does a single thing. would be cool. would be very hard to do.

2025-10-04 19:22:53 UTC

guy builds an x64 game with no operating system, just uefi commands and assembly . pretty badass
https://youtu.be/ZFHnbozz7b4

2025-10-03 00:52:21 UTC

sora does not let you make a video with someone saying “retard”. retarded.

2025-10-01 20:12:59 UTC

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this was not a "feature addition". it was a small incentive tweak to not:
- make mining centralization worse
- make utxo spam worse
- make fee estimation worse
it was a completely reasonable change that got blown way out of proportion

2025-10-01 19:49:08 UTC

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i've been a professional software engineer for 20+ years and have been following bitcoin core development since 2010. I can say for certain that you are incorrect. but what do I know i'm only an "expert". i will defer to retards who don't know what they are talking about.

2025-10-01 16:32:12 UTC

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pleb philosophy is that you don't need a technical understanding of a system before suggesting changes to it. how is that going to scale.

2025-10-01 13:43:52 UTC

if you could configure your posts to self destruct after a year or two, would you?

2025-10-01 12:49:32 UTC

already seeing a new type of human/bot hybrid who outsources all of their thinking to LLMs when they start losing arguments online. sad future we’re heading into

2025-09-30 22:04:06 UTC

very cool indexing software for all of your documents/books/etc: recoll
https://www.recoll.org/
https://jb55.com/s/88e08a60615d980d.png

2025-09-30 16:09:46 UTC

ufo lore in 2025 has so much myth accretion that they fully accept psionic abilities since so many abduction stories have them.
if you approach this community from a sci-fi world building perspective its pretty fun/entertaining.
they build so much of their lore on witness testimony so there's no way to tell what is a psyop, what is true, what is hoax, what is hallucinations/sleep paralysis dreams. it all gets incorporated into the lore regardless. its a web of a bunch of incoherent nonsense and maybe 1% truth.
that 1% might be super interesting though.

2025-09-29 23:24:46 UTC

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nice

2025-09-29 21:32:44 UTC

@npub1spy…5j7y recommended https://lnvpn.net for an esim. wow! very easy to get data anywhere and can pay with lightning, no kyc. using this on my spare android devices.

2025-09-29 20:13:35 UTC

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i think more people running nodes is a good thing. once they are comfortable running a pruned node they can choose to upgrade to a more fancy setup like archival nodes and lightning nodes + block explorers.

2025-09-29 18:26:03 UTC

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i remember looking through the database of translated cuniform text and it was all work orders and invoices

2025-09-29 18:22:53 UTC

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it enables a way for a sender to calculate a private Bitcoin address that the receiver can look for on the blockchain. this can happen without any servers or anything complicated
so we can put the silent payment address on a nostr profile and people can send onchain payments privately to them

2025-09-29 18:12:58 UTC

bolt12 + silent payments together is UX gold
#note1w04…alg4

2025-09-29 17:15:53 UTC

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go away shitcoiner

2025-09-29 16:59:01 UTC

so pumped for silent payments
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28122
going to experiment with an onchain zap spec soon

2025-09-29 16:01:00 UTC

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ok, thanks for sharing your opinion. unfortunately this doesn’t make any progress on the issue at hand

2025-09-29 15:45:48 UTC

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not really, unless you want something to be super censorship resistant and have it replicated across many computers across the world. you just have to pay a decent amount of coin to do this.

2025-09-29 15:39:41 UTC

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noone disagrees that bitcoin should be used mainly for monetary transactions.

2025-09-29 15:03:41 UTC

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noone disagrees with this, except for some extreme degen gamblers and bad actors

2025-09-29 14:54:31 UTC

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please update the wiki if you believe it is wrong

2025-09-29 14:50:30 UTC

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not true.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Full_node#:~:text=Any%20computer%20that%20connects%20to%20the%20Bitcoin%20network%20is%20called%20a%20node.%20Nodes%20that%20fully%20verify%20all%20of%20the%20rules%20of%20Bitcoin%20are%20called%20full%20nodes.

2025-09-29 14:45:36 UTC

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thats what pruned nodes enable

2025-09-29 14:45:11 UTC

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this is the conundrum. to stop this multisig transaction would require you to censor a valid bitcoin transaction.

2025-09-29 14:39:39 UTC

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#nevent1q…s8e4

2025-09-29 14:38:24 UTC

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didn’t realize nick szabo was an authority on bitcoin core technicals

2025-09-29 14:30:12 UTC

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“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

2025-09-29 14:16:48 UTC

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yes i agree, which is why i also believe lifting op_return is a very small incentivization tweak for lazy, non bad actors to use op_return for their app protocols instead of something dumber like multisig pubkey outputs

2025-09-29 14:06:26 UTC

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if bad actors wanted to do harm at their own economic expense they would just put them in the format above, which filters wouldn’t stop.
If they wanted to be economical they would just use inscriptions.
both cases have nothing to do with op_return

2025-09-29 13:59:54 UTC

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#nevent1q…aj6s
pruned nodes are full nodes

2025-09-29 13:59:13 UTC

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is this the contiguous data argument? because my one liner above pulls and combines data non contiguously. It’s a pretty weak argument.

2025-09-29 13:44:27 UTC

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how have i lost the plot exactly. Most people disagreeing with me don’t seem to understand the technical nuance of the spam issues at play.
I believe utxospam is much worse than op_return spam, so i am acting accordingly.
If “pleb” noderunners disagree then so be it. They can continue living in an alternate reality that doesn’t affect me.

2025-09-29 13:29:04 UTC

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this is false. you do not need terabytes of storage on a pruned node. you need the same amount of network *bandwidth*, sure, but pruned nodes prune as they are downloading. They only keep as much as they need to rollback incase of a reorg.

2025-09-29 13:25:45 UTC

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of course it does, it reduces the storage requirement, the most important requirement. Not everyone has terabytes of storage to spare on their device.

2025-09-29 13:21:26 UTC

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of course it is, not everyone can run a full archival node. Making it easier for more people to run nodes -> more decentralized. Pruned nodes (aka Full nodes) are still fully validating, they just don’t store all the blocks.

2025-09-29 13:07:07 UTC

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not all nodes need to be full archival nodes. that would be bad for decentralization.

2025-09-29 13:06:03 UTC

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This one line also destroys the contiguous data argument. for loops aren’t hard.

2025-09-29 13:02:12 UTC

did you know you can get the bitcoin whitepaper from your pruned node? Its stored in the utxoset permanently. Heres a one liner i created to extract it
seq 0 947 | (while read -r n; do bitcoin-cli gettxout 54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713 $n | jq -r '.scriptPubKey.asm' | awk '{ print $2 $3 $4 }'; done) | tr -d '\n' | cut -c 17-368600 | xxd -r -p > bitcoin.pdf
This is why we prefer people use large OP_RETURNs instead of 947 outputs that can’t be pruned. OP_RETURNs are probably unspendable so they will never end up in your pruned nodes utxoset.
They also produce smaller blocks than inscriptions. Unfortunately they are 4x more expensive… but lifting the filter restriction is one small thing we can do to encourage it over other options that are much worse for bitcoin spam-wise.
You definitely don’t want illegal, unprunable stuff in your utxoset permanently, which is why i am running core v30 to do what i can to disincentivize this spam.

2025-09-28 14:15:20 UTC

name a better album. i'll wait.
https://jb55.com/s/57702d8981203013.png

2025-09-27 23:47:22 UTC

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and you do ?

2025-09-27 20:45:42 UTC

gen z stare is real

2025-09-27 16:26:16 UTC

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sure if they paid me

2025-09-27 15:38:56 UTC

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technically all transactions are monetary transactions, they are paying the miner to include it in a block, whatever it is.

2025-09-27 15:35:16 UTC

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not true
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/127903/1235

2025-09-27 15:34:56 UTC

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https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/127903/1235

2025-09-27 15:27:34 UTC

i'm old enough to remember when people were complaining that bitcoin was going to die because fees were too high. now people say its going to die because fees are too low and its easy to spam with non-monetary transactions.
now they are saying its going to die because of a small v30 policy change that doesn't even interact with the main spam vector: inscriptions.
bitcoiners always need something to fight about i guess. retardation levels at ATH.

2025-09-27 15:11:08 UTC

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this is long overdue tbh. just need to do it carefully to not destroy utxo privacy. silent payments will be key here

2025-09-27 15:09:10 UTC

lets save Bitcoin. people complain the fees are too low so it's becoming easier to spam with jpegs, let's build onchain zaps into our clients 😆

2025-09-27 14:59:09 UTC

sometimes I forget my cat is ancient self replicating technology and not just a cute little thing.

2025-09-27 14:18:38 UTC

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you understand inscriptions allow for 4x more spam to be stored per block and op_return is way less harmful right?

2025-09-26 21:40:48 UTC

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all we have is a uuid-style device id. its not a pubkey or anything that we encrypt to.

2025-09-26 21:19:36 UTC

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thats web not APNS

2025-09-26 20:58:42 UTC

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well its not like we encrypt it to a phone key before we sent to APNS, so doesn't seem like it?

2025-09-26 20:58:03 UTC

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not sure tbh

2025-09-26 17:00:53 UTC

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do it

2025-09-26 16:48:52 UTC

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nice chatgpt reply bro

2025-09-26 15:56:37 UTC

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interesting idea

2025-09-26 15:41:56 UTC

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correct, I built like 10 of them from the ages of 10 to 20. bad ones. was a good way to learn programming though, and also drive my hatred of OOP.

2025-09-26 15:37:48 UTC

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Arrogance is thinking you know better over a nuclear engineer. I would not try to tell them how to do their job

2025-09-26 15:36:36 UTC

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you mean common sense?

2025-09-26 06:50:54 UTC

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its inevitable these people are going to fork off into authoritarian coin. anyone who can’t see that by now are blind.
lots of these people are people who i have never interacted with before. all bot and burner accounts. all parroting LLM style responses with very little technical understanding of bitcoin.
sad and pathetic.

2025-09-26 00:20:40 UTC

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says the shitcoiner

2025-09-26 00:05:45 UTC

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says a random bot. gfy

2025-09-25 23:26:49 UTC

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I am sorry that you are retarded and don’t understand how bitcoin works

2025-09-25 22:59:15 UTC

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Luke claims this is fake?
https://i.nostr.build/YwiTFw3UoVhgRHzS.jpg

2025-09-25 22:46:40 UTC

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I really don’t care what code you run, go run knots and enjoy your shitcoin.

2025-09-25 22:33:05 UTC

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i can, this interview is really good and his logic is impeccable. if you don’t think so then i immediately think you’re not a serious person.

2025-09-25 22:32:05 UTC

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I no longer believe you are an engineer if you actually believe this. i don’t think i’ve ever seen a good idea from twitter, it only happens via actual contributions

2025-09-25 22:23:47 UTC

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yeah but you're not encorporating the opinions of twitter users into your engineering decisions. lets be honest.

2025-09-25 22:12:21 UTC

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why would nuclear engineers entertain the opinion of the general public? you could argue bitcoin is more important than the operation of a nuclear power plant. its engineering and game theory over feels.

2025-09-25 21:58:59 UTC

"if bitcoiners aren't calling each other retards the bitcoin experiment has failed".
wise words from @npub1cj8…rz4u
https://youtu.be/vddGaTgdLfQ?t=941

2025-09-25 21:53:08 UTC

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cognitive dissonance is a hellava drug

2025-09-25 21:33:39 UTC

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lol

2025-09-25 21:28:56 UTC

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enjoy your shitcoin fork retard

2025-09-25 21:20:53 UTC

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yes they were, because if they understood the change they wouldn’t be upset