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2025-06-10 20:27:21 UTC

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If I understand correctly, in Portuguese how something is said may depend on the gender of the speaker. Do other languages do this?

2025-06-10 19:33:16 UTC

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Termux doesn't require opening local network on VPN with split tunneling. It would be nice if ported terminal app didn't require this.

2025-06-10 16:22:42 UTC

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I think one must be careful, especially with a renewed/discounted purchase, not to get a model with a locked bootloader. Most Verizon models in US I believe. When Amazon has one of their storewide sales, non current, but new pixels are often nicely discounted.

2025-06-09 19:57:59 UTC

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A prime example of government distortion of free markets. Sadly, providers of bitcoin backed loan products are not incentivized to oppose this tax because its avoidance is a significant driver of demand for such products.

2025-06-08 15:38:40 UTC

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I've been thinking of revisiting some Krishnamurti. You are inspiring me to do so. 🙏

2025-06-02 14:08:28 UTC

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Yes, but when you encounter other humans IRL, do still try to acknowledge them even if just a smile and nod 👍

2025-05-29 02:41:46 UTC

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It's a challenge for sure! My current lifestyle does not require optimal digital functionality, so a strictly FOSS graphene phone with an old iphone available in a pinch works. Tails meets my current laptop needs. Cool that you run qubes. Tried once on an old macbook, but couldn't jump through enough hoops. May have to retry sometime with a newer pc. Partly just venting my frustration with fountain's choice, so thank you for that opportunity 😉

2025-05-28 22:32:41 UTC

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Closed source proprietary software. Antithetical to bitcoin ethos, IMHO.

2025-05-25 17:42:56 UTC

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I check and double check then delete old wallets (measure twice, cut once). If I missed anything, then supply reduction to fellow bitcoiners 😉

2025-05-25 13:52:45 UTC

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Any thoughts about these for trying to avoid non voluntary iris scans? https://www.reflectacles.com/

2025-05-17 03:21:39 UTC

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Sorry if an uninformed question, but why not just drink h2o? When I sometimes get water for drinking by filling a jug at some store, I just get distilled or equivalent.

2025-05-16 02:39:29 UTC

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I'm NOT a writer and have no aspirations to be one. But having your own style is definitely a good thing in my opinion. For example, I remember reading some Hemingway in my youth. After much time, I'm not especially clear on what I read, but I am clear in remembering that I liked his style. In your effort to meet certain quality bars, please don't lose your personal style.

2025-05-15 20:01:33 UTC

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Never mind, I wasn't seeing all the replies. I'll catch up.

2025-05-15 19:58:58 UTC

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Please explain a little what is meant by fractured mempools.

2025-05-15 19:44:58 UTC

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If it helps to motivate you, so be it, but I think the meme, although funny 😆, will prove to be may too self deprecating! I look forward to enjoying your fiction one day 👍

2025-05-15 04:20:34 UTC

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I've considered this response also, but I believe Satoshi was responding to Dan Larimer. He later became a founder of the scam EOS, and is probably a billionaire because of that scam. Not certain of any point I'm trying to make. Maybe just to be careful of someone having the last laugh if we engage a bit too harshly?

2025-05-12 23:46:05 UTC

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I appreciate the thought. I'll get there eventually. I'm an amethyst user on graphene, and that works well for me. I'd like to use ecash for zaps, and was hoping amethyst or another similar client might build in an ecash wallet whose balance I can maintain externally with a lightning wallet. I'm aware of nostr wallet connect, and that may ultimately be the route I take, but my initial desire was to avoid inter app communication on my phone. I think I may be overly concerned though, and just need to get on with it. I do want to join the zap party! Curious to know how you're setup for zaps if you don't mind sharing.

2025-05-12 20:17:19 UTC

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Ah, an easy one 😉 https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7268126 and https://youtube.com/@PresidioBitcoin

2025-05-12 19:58:22 UTC

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I just don't want to see incentives to route around our peer to peer mempools with things like slipstream. As much as possible, I hope all miners can be on a level playing field. Once I finally get my bitaxe setup, I want to be able to compete fair and square. This is obviously on a very small personal level, but when this scales it may be critical to mining and bitcoin's decentralization. It is my understanding that other standardness rules are important for ddos and other attacks. The op return limit is not. I would probably be in favor of a consensus softfork that limited blockchain spam without negative centralization risks. But that is quite unlikely unfortunately. Sadly, 4mb blocks/transactions of crap are possible. Will blocks be heavier without the op return limit? Maybe, but I believe negligibly so. I'm more concerned with centralization risks, utxo set harm (I think this may have a greater impact on costs to run a node than any potential small increase in storage costs.), and making it harder to securely maintain bitcoin core. I'm no one significant here though, and am just regurgitating information. But it is information obtained from multiple well regarded 😉 minds past & present of bitcoin, and it makes sense to me. Best to you and all of us! but I need to step away from this soon. Rainy day, but when that passes, I need some rays!

2025-05-12 19:02:21 UTC

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With all the great benefits of segwit (lightening!), it also enabled (made a concession to?) consensus valid 4mb blocks. In this world the potential harm of blocking consensus valid transactions with an insignificant amount of data in an op return should not be something the reference implementation of bitcoin is a party to.

2025-05-12 18:44:34 UTC

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Come on, Jimmy, slipstream bad, let's not incentivize that behavior! Add to that the potential harm to the utxo set, all for inconsequential storage costs of op return data? What if someone discovers a way for anchors in op return to facilitate or enhance a legitimate scaling solution, should core be standing in the way? Core is on the right side of this one, and wonderfully, anyone that disagrees is free to not upgrade or switch to knots. All this said, I very much appreciate all you do and have done for so long!

2025-05-12 18:17:51 UTC

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Agree. God candles up are going to be fun, but they'll go both ways. IMHO, withstanding human emotional incentives of euphoria & despair with a choppy but steady grind up will be the best way. Probably not happening yet though 😉 But the larger bitcoin gets, the more it will fulfill the foundational role of free market money for the economy of the world.

2025-05-10 23:27:40 UTC

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I have been very much appreciating your clear explanations on the Presidio Bitcoin Jam. Thank you! And to your point on the most recent episode, I run a node for exactly the reasons you give for a relatively non economic actor, to validate coins & maintain privacy. For those purposes, bitcoin core is the clear choice for me.

2025-05-10 23:05:22 UTC

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If removing an unnecessary option simplifies the code base, making it less prone to bugs and easier to securely maintain as I believe to be the case, then, yes! I hope that the bitcoin core developers stick to this decision, and do not succumb to this pressure from the knots team. Consider some possible incentives/motives here, Ocean is a great additional pool for bitcoin mining, but it is also a money making endeavor. Perhaps some of that money is being well spent by Ocean's "global head of sales" to create pointless dissention that benefits Ocean. Perhaps maintaining knots, a fork of core, will be more difficult for Luke when he has to maintain even more features that core has decided were unnecessary. Do we really want core devs to be maintaining features at the potential expense of the foundational security of the bitcoin node reference implementation just to make some fork maintainer's job easier? Core does not have an adjacent business to support marketing or a "global head of sales". What it does have is many of the brightest minds of bitcoin's past and present, that have shepherded it to the world changing network and money that it is today. Other implementations are great, and I am grateful they exist for those that wish to use their features, but trying to coerce core devs to make concessions to what they judge to be best for bitcoin's security and decentralization is an attack in my book!

2025-05-08 16:24:10 UTC

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Thank you! 🙏 This is good news! I will continue waiting to setup my bitaxe to mine with datum & ocean on startos until possible with core. Choice is good ❤

2025-05-07 20:33:02 UTC

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If I want to run a bitaxe and receive the few satoshis earned (not lotto mine), am I required to use knots? If so, this feels like coercion. I hope there will be another solution. I wish to continue using bitcoin core. Over time I have come to appreciate the judgment of multiple bitcoin core devs. I trust that judgement for what is best for bitcoin's success (to remain secure and decentralized) way more then I do that of the two primary proponents of knots.

2025-05-07 16:59:55 UTC

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Well written! Thank you

2025-05-06 21:10:23 UTC

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Find those that you believe to have a deep understanding of the base bitcoin protocol, and consider their opinions. Known influencers while often not possessing that deep understanding, can help to find those that do.

2025-05-06 16:45:04 UTC

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Sorry, but this aligns for me:
#nevent1q…t4dz
I'm beginning to question the incentives for the head of sales for ocean.

2025-05-04 10:01:17 UTC

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But can you two step 😉 https://youtu.be/A0PNW4DXwJ0

2025-05-03 19:06:17 UTC

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Great info! Thank you. I wonder if there might be a place for two kinds of encrypted chat, a more ephemeral one that cannot be recovered with just an nsec, and a more historical version that remains accessible with an nsec?

2025-05-02 02:03:50 UTC

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Need to keep the immune system on its toes 😉

2025-05-02 01:37:32 UTC

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This is great info & goes a long way in increasing my comfort with your app design! Thank you

2025-05-02 00:49:40 UTC

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To the greatest extent possible, I feel bitcoin core should relay all consensus valid transactions. Filter with another implementation.

2025-05-02 00:45:48 UTC

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I very much appreciate your guard against & sensitivity to threats to mining (& thus bitcoin) decentralization 🙏

2025-05-01 15:28:19 UTC

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In addition to placing some trust in Keychat, with webview I assume we are also placing trust in other parties. Could a malicious webview party compromise others? Some nsec, privacy, ecash concerns with webview. Curious about a Linux version without webview.

2025-05-01 15:17:06 UTC

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On graphene, in Settings>System>Gestures>Navigation mode, I currently have 3-button navigation selected instead of the default Gesture navigation. Might eventually switch back, but for now I like the more deterministic?/predictable? feel. May be very few that choose this, but just wanted to input at least one reference point in case it might play some part in your UI decisions. Thank you for your app!

2025-04-30 14:35:53 UTC

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I totally get this, especially if it needs to be a second device at least for awhile. I like working with computers, but I still find the need for my old iPhone at times. For example, the wonderful open source Organic Maps while great and sufficient most of the time, just isn't as good at providing directions with public transit in an unknown city. Back to the cost, I got my pixel 7a for $250 USD before tax and a case during one of Amazon's sales last year. At this time an 8a during hopefully a future sale would probably make the most sense. Or find a fellow graphene user at a bitcoin meetup upgrading to a newer model willing to pass on an older pixel at a good price, just to try it out.

2025-04-30 14:13:03 UTC

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Thank you for your reply. These are good points! Yes, I don't like being limited to one manufacturer (Google 😜). I think there's a chance that other manufacturers may provide a device with these capabilities, especially if there's increasing demand. But even without another option, and having to do without some iPhone conveniences, I'm happy at this time for the greater freedom to use my pocket computer the way I choose. I've taken the transition from an iPhone quite slow, but now mostly only take the old iPhone away from home on a trip. Definitely a learning curve, and no friends or family have followed yet, but they're not nostr bitcoiners yet either 😉. As far as the boot warnings, I kind of like them as a badge of honor, with Google getting their logo in, but finishing with Graphene's.

2025-04-30 04:14:14 UTC

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https://youtu.be/Zo9qHqTDcgM

2025-04-30 03:56:19 UTC

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I appreciate that for some iOS users cost and/or inconvenience of a second device may prevent, but a pixel 8a with graphene may be a way for many. Be careful to avoid Verizon and other models with a locked bootloader. Again, if two devices are feasible, doesn't have to be daily driver. Begin to free yourself from the walled gardens, and start enjoying the wonderful world of FOSS!

2025-04-29 17:48:18 UTC

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Finding a nostr client with an ecash wallet for zapping built in. Preferably just ecash, no lightning liquid or main chain. I can manage the balance externally with something like aqua.

2025-04-29 01:29:56 UTC

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Thank you for taking the time for this reply. As a less technical user, takes from people like yourself help me to align myself with what is hopefully in the best interest of bjtcoin 🙏

2025-04-28 18:39:08 UTC

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Do you have an opinion on the use of Knots? And its requirement to use DATUM?

2025-04-23 09:12:44 UTC

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Beautiful! Great work! Thank you 🙏 Please make the use of Knots an option, not a requirement.

2025-04-20 14:05:43 UTC

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@nprofile…8307 good points. Appreciate your input. Perhaps relying more on a protocol that utilizes signed messages (Nostr) would be a good idea 😉

2025-04-10 14:50:24 UTC

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❤ Boltz 🙏 Sorry if silly question, but how are there more peers than channels? Seems like there should just be one peer per channel.

2025-04-08 21:21:14 UTC

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Do they still have a fixed 0.4% fee to spend?

2025-04-08 18:12:22 UTC

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I feel custody is downstream of security and censorship resistance; integral yes, but still downstream. Thus privacy becomes a factor than can be as important as custody.

2025-04-07 17:20:41 UTC

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https://blog.lopp.net/against-quantum-recovery-of-bitcoin/

2025-04-06 18:00:22 UTC

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https://blog.lopp.net/against-quantum-recovery-of-bitcoin/

2025-04-05 17:29:36 UTC

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Should transactions on the base layer be primarily for moving privately in and out of higher layers where confidential/private/uncensurable transactions may occur?

2025-03-30 20:59:49 UTC

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Thank you for this information! I'm glad to hear Nostr integration is opt in. I look forward to Nostr DM encryption becoming more robust in the future. Thank you again for all you're doing in support of bitcoin 🙏

2025-03-30 02:24:29 UTC

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Considering possible (likely?) future fees, what might be an economically reasonable minimum utxo size? Perhaps 1M sats? I think those that can afford a 1M sat utxo will be able to have one.

2025-03-29 23:25:48 UTC

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Very much appreciate the new option to Electrum & Sparrow! Choices are good. Thank you 🙏 Personally though, I would be cautious of trusting the encryption of Nostr DMs to protect the privacy of sensitive PSBTs.

2025-03-25 22:41:59 UTC

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This looks good! I look forward to trying it out. Was kind of hoping you had a recommendation 😉 Thank you!

2025-03-25 04:38:26 UTC

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Vanadium bookmarks 😉

2025-03-22 22:59:51 UTC

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Sorry to hear of your potential phone loss. Curious to know what you and others may do in these situations to avoid any potential data compromise before recycling.

2025-03-22 19:36:58 UTC

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I appreciate aqua.net for mobile spending wallet 👍🙏

2025-03-22 00:20:04 UTC

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Looking good in that Camaro 👍

2025-03-19 17:17:50 UTC

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This is a reason I like wallets like Sparrow that not only allow fee rate control, but also the option of just setting the total fee. Then one can determine exact amounts for sending that whole UTXO.

2025-03-19 02:12:11 UTC

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A little Dylan for naysayers: "Your old road is rapidly agin’ ; Please get out of the new one if you can’t lend your hand"

2025-03-17 17:15:45 UTC

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I enjoy & appreciate Nozomi's writing & interviews, and this article was no exception! Thank you, Nozomi 🙏 @nprofile…unu3 & @nprofile…4hxr , I hope you don't mind me tagging you 😊

2025-03-17 16:08:56 UTC

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For my use case, Sparrow is best for on-chain, and I do not want to compromise. As an aside, are the developers of BlueWallet publicly known?

2025-03-17 15:57:05 UTC

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Can you read & write to an SD card for air-gapped use with a Coldcard?

2025-03-16 22:34:13 UTC

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Yes, but how can you use that fork! 😆😉

2025-03-14 23:01:49 UTC

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Solo or small dev teams may not have resources to support both desktop/laptop & mobile. If I understand correctly, this may give GrapheneOS users access to some desktop/laptop only apps when desktop/laptop not available.

2025-03-12 21:26:55 UTC

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Thank you for your detailed reply! I really appreciate your service. 🙏👍

2025-03-12 16:51:42 UTC

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How might this affect privacy? Is Boltz able to associate swaps that use the same master key?

2025-03-11 23:07:52 UTC

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Being able to run sparrowwallet.com would be very cool. @nprofile…r4x5

2025-03-11 02:07:17 UTC

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Tempted, but unfortunately still a no for me. I have a Coldcard that's never been plugged in to a computer or phone. All transactions and firmware updates air-gapped with SD card. Is this possible with JadeLink? If so, great! Then really close for me. But last part... please remind me again why Jade does not support PSBTs. But sincerely, thank you. Looks like a beautiful product!

2025-03-10 17:12:52 UTC

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Thank you for this service! It is said to be E2EE, so I assume the "ends" must be one's device and Maple AI. So Maple AI has the encryption keys necessary to decrypt our input, then process and encrypt its response. What assurance is there that Maple AI is not storing and/or sharing the information it has access to, and is resistant to compromise?

2025-03-09 23:37:47 UTC

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How might this compare to termux.dev ?

2025-03-08 17:22:14 UTC

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I agree. Humans seem to have a desire for scarce things, but this can be outweighed by a difficulty or burden of possession, or perhaps it's something offensive to human nature. So, yes, scarcity not sufficient in all cases, but in conjunction with bitcoin's other properties, probably its most powerful.

2025-03-08 15:59:58 UTC

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This got me thinking. If bitcoin were not scarce, I cannot imagine it having value. But because of its scarcity, I cannot imagine it not having value.

2025-03-07 20:35:26 UTC

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🎯

2025-03-05 01:25:31 UTC

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Thank you, Jeff 🙏 Made it further than I would have 😉

2025-03-05 00:36:51 UTC

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Sad to say my opinion of the EFF is changing. There's still the @nprofile…t5ph

2025-03-03 23:56:34 UTC

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Still 11of15? I think I heard there were plans to grow that number. I wonder if secrecy is to try to protect against government/regulatory attacks. Its use in wallets like Aqua & Breez is quite convenient. And extra privacy of blinded payment amounts much appreciated. Main chain bitcoin in and out of Liquid maybe nice privacy mixer if threat model not too severe. Wouldn't say amounts are money happy to lose, but could afford to lose. I wonder if with the advent of a service like Boltz if moving in and out could be considered less permissioned.

2025-03-03 19:08:47 UTC

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Do you have any possible remedies in mind? Maybe US states starting to hold first? Of course just bitcoin. The obvious inferiority of everything else as money is becoming more and more apparent.

2025-03-03 17:54:42 UTC

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FOSS apks. Build it and people will come?

2025-02-27 22:53:10 UTC

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Thank you for Sparrow! 🙏 Question about its use with tails.net . On each boot, I manually run sudo dpkg -i ~/Persistent/path/to/sparrow.deb , wallets & config are saved with dotfiles feature. Is an appimage a possibility so I can just run that, or should I try to find a way to automate the running of the dpkg command?

2025-02-26 23:10:01 UTC

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Thank you for all you do, Vitor 🙏 I'm hoping for a good open-source mobile nostr client with an ecash wallet built in. Don't mind manually maintaining the balance with a separate lightning wallet. #GrapheneOS user that prefers to minimize background app communication. Amethyst someday maybe?

2025-02-25 01:49:53 UTC

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Thank you for this information! 🙏

2025-02-24 23:16:22 UTC

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Somewhat related user question. Hoping when a channel is closed that all associated BOLT 12's cease to function, ie, they return an error if used as opposed to any loss of funds. Is there also a standard way to disable individual BOLT 12's while still maintaining the channel?

2025-02-24 23:01:02 UTC

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Doesn't this depend on what the "minimum wage" is?

2025-02-22 16:02:13 UTC

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It might just be something I need to get over or get comfortable with, but right now I prefer to minimize inter app communication on my GrapheneOS phone. I would love a good mobile nostr app with an ecash wallet built in. I can handle maintaining the balance manually.

2025-02-22 01:59:10 UTC

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Very nice article. Thank you 🙏 Current happy Start9 user, but your article has made me think. I'd love a tuturial on how to run a node and electrs from an always running instance of tails.net

2025-02-22 00:44:27 UTC

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Alarm set. What should I do at 0200 UTC?

2025-02-20 23:16:01 UTC

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I fondly recall reading Stephen King's The Stand in my youth. A long book, but a single book. Enjoyed having it to turn to for a time, and a little sad when I'd finished. Cherished for its single volume.

2025-02-13 21:27:46 UTC

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Still closed source? I found a strengthened appreciation for FOSS in my bitcoin rabbit hole. @nprofile…qft7 ?

2025-02-06 22:39:36 UTC

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Is there a reason for this way of presenting video? I find it annoying, and it feels somewhat manipulative.

2025-02-06 21:36:39 UTC

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Passports may not even be necessary as methods of biometric identification become more prevalent. Is there anything that can be done by freedom minded people to push back?

2025-01-31 04:45:23 UTC

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Sparrow on tails.net is a combo I like.

2025-01-27 00:13:41 UTC

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Why is goal $4,681?

2025-01-22 22:30:27 UTC

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Great info! Thank you. Other priorities for now, but I plan to try to do this before too long. 👍

2025-01-22 20:39:34 UTC

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Any chance to get page set up for lightning donations?

2025-01-22 20:27:13 UTC

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The default video playback preference is Always. Pause a video and scroll past then scroll back to it, and it's playing again. If this setting is changed to Never, does the problem persist?

2025-01-22 18:21:30 UTC

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TIL: https://www.grammar.com/schadenfreude_vs._freudenfreude 🙏

2025-01-22 17:47:50 UTC

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Anyone else having trouble with Mr. Kratter's podcast subscription? https://odysee.com/$/rss/@TraderUniversity:a has not picked up anything in AntennaPod since the beginning of the year.