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I haven't done the forensics, but I do know that BTCPayServer urged everyone to update because of a critical vulnerability, so I would assume that's it.

2026-08-10 07:10:14 UTC

For the past week, I've been reading a lot about the #Coldcard "incident", and the heard the news about #Boltz shutting down.
A thought came by, "should I sweep my #BTCPayServer/#LND instance? I run a lot of things there, including LNBits, Cashu mint, they might be vulnerable.". It stayed as a thought.
Instead of my hearing my instinct, at another time of the week, I decided (without thinking too much) to transfer some funds I had from my hot wallet to my node, to open a new channel.
I wish I hadn't.
After 2 days, all my chanmels were closed, and it's the first time in many years that my node shows 0 balance, on-chain and lightning.
+1 to the list of August victims.

2026-08-08 13:35:55 UTC

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Excellently investigation. Let's hope someone does this proactively too, for other projects 😅
I'm wondering if there is any chance this bug was intentional...

2026-08-05 11:32:09 UTC

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Do you mean the car was not working until the ad finished playing?

2026-07-08 09:31:10 UTC

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Thank you for doing this.

2026-06-29 08:02:47 UTC

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The "someone owns more than x% of the population combined" is a correct but misleading/useless metric.
Around 20% of US population have 0 or negative net worth.
Anyone who is debt-free with a few dollars in the bank has more wealth than that 20% combined (0+0+0=0).

2026-06-18 05:40:35 UTC

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"it's a dividend/yield paying stablecoin/stable asset"
"what keeps the price stable?"
"we do" (until they don't)
- Luna, MSTR, DarkFi, etc.

2026-05-31 04:14:53 UTC

If we ever need to bump Bitcoin fees for incentivising more miners (say in 2140), we can always enable a #NIP for "indestructible notes".
"Indestructible notes" are basically pointers to the note, while the note is published under OP_RETURN. This becomes easier with the on-chain wallets that have been popping up lately in Nostr clients.
I don't have a NIP, it's just an idea. What does #nostr think?
#asknostr

2026-05-19 08:04:57 UTC

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Can't I just provide some liquidity and you automatically move the funds where needed, while I receive my yield?
Or am I asking for a lot?

2026-05-16 05:08:26 UTC

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I do, proxmox is great, especially combined with Ceph!
On it, I'm running VMs with Kubernetes, connected to the PVE's Ceph for persistent storage.
Quite a cool setup.

2026-05-12 05:57:34 UTC

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Sounds great!

2026-04-10 05:21:14 UTC

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Same. And with tiny letters on the bottom, it reads something like "Actors in this commercial were generated by AI".

2026-02-14 13:55:39 UTC

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It clearly states "random OR anonymous chat".
Any app with a chat function and without named accounts (does login with email cover this?) can be considered anonymous.
It depends on how they interpret it, but we've seen bans on freedom tech before, so I think interested parties should be prepared accordingly.

2026-02-09 06:11:23 UTC

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Netflix & Wolt

2026-02-08 06:17:16 UTC

I read about Apple removing anonymous chat apps from the App Store.
https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/06/apple-says-random-or-anonymous-chat-apps-no-longer-welcome-on-the-app-store/
I understand this includes Bitchat, oxchat, Keychat, but basically any Nostr app that has the messaging feature enabled.
#asknostr #bitchat #amethyst #primal #damus

2025-12-22 07:38:26 UTC

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I think that's the idea. Bots will answer, humans will fail. It's a reverse captcha.

2025-12-11 17:27:17 UTC

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Let users generate videos with disney characters.
You will be able to create your own Disney film, or at least short story.

2025-12-01 18:04:50 UTC

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That's not a lot on its own, but can multiple PWAs play concurrently? If so, the impact might be quite noticeable!
I love the idea as a hack, but I also like efficient programming 😅

2025-12-01 15:41:03 UTC

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What's the impact of this on battery life?

2025-11-28 20:33:33 UTC

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We have boltcards, how hard is it to put into software?

2025-11-22 09:03:09 UTC

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Unfortunately, many sites completely block you out for using a VPN. It's an awful practice, but it happens.

2025-11-18 14:05:12 UTC

I host multiple sites and services that work without issues.
1 of them went down today and won't come up. It was very odd that only 1 went down.
It turns out, it's the only one using Cloudflare.
I can't login to Cloudflare console.
I can't even login to my registrar to disable Cloudflare (dns config), because they also use Cloudflare!
My hands are tied on this. We all wait for Cloudflare to fix this, and I can't think of a way to fix this on my side.
This is peak centralization. Registrars using Cloudflare can bring the internet to a deadlock.

2025-11-13 09:27:05 UTC

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Strike does that and is available in Europe.

2025-11-12 07:39:12 UTC

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Why not buy a coffee denominated in sats? We have dollars and cents. We have bitcoin and sats. It's simple.

2025-11-11 17:14:26 UTC

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Don't you like paying by card? You only need to provide your legal name and address, write 16 numbers, a date and 3 digits, while also needing to approve the payment from your phone. Oh and if you use a vpn, the 2fa page might not work and you need to restart the process.
That's way better than scanning a QR code and tapping pay. /s

2025-11-11 13:09:04 UTC

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Sats are sats. We also have a great symbol for it, although not in unicode yet.
If ₿ is sats, how do you type 100m sats (1 Bitcoin)?
Or is the idea to completely ditch the 100m number and reactor everything as sats/₿?

2025-11-09 20:15:19 UTC

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If you do an aqua-style liquid integration, it will be the perfect all-in-one wallet to beat them all.
Liquid is useful for long-term holding but still quick and cheap to transact. Because lightning channels, even when custodial, require you to be online frequently (to be trustless). I feel liquid offers a better "storage" option, while lightning is best for more frequent transactions.

2025-11-05 06:33:27 UTC

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I like how wallets like aqua make it dead simple for newbies to transact with bitcoin and its layers safely and without headaches, and Boltz plays a big part in this.
However, I'd prefer Boltz (or the swapping layer, in general), to become more decentralized. We can't have all modern multi-layer wallets depend on 1 single service... Is there a way to randomly choose a boltz instance instead of a central one? Maybe with discoverability and reviews through Nostr, like cashu mints.

2025-10-07 18:42:37 UTC

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You can get bank loans for 10.5% APR without collateral.
Why would you put your Bitcoin at risk for 13%?
Considering bitcoin is "pristine collateral" as people say, I would expect much lower rates than banks.

2025-09-19 12:59:47 UTC

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Thanks for the information and the 6 sats.
I'm using lnd, I don't think it has any Nostr support, so I'm not sure how I would send zap receipts to relays.

2025-09-18 21:15:45 UTC

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In $, not in €.
And for sure not in sats :)

2025-09-16 09:26:27 UTC

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The European Union forced Apple to allow apps to be installed without their App Store. Hence, Altstore was born.

2025-09-13 10:09:27 UTC

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I guess taking Greenland under US's wings won't be that difficult.

2025-09-10 11:58:08 UTC

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People should be aware of nostr and bitchat before shit hits the fan.

2025-09-05 14:13:40 UTC

Just saw the "accelerate with gpay" in @nprofile…edr2. It's quite interesting especially for non-tech people.
It would be even better to accelerate by paying via lightning or cashu, maybe using mempool's mint if they run one.

2025-08-07 08:53:36 UTC

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So AIs are great politicians.

2025-08-05 06:31:57 UTC

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Instapaper is just like Pocket when it started. https://www.instapaper.com/

2025-05-26 03:16:45 UTC

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Who decides what's spam? I only care if a transaction is valid as per the Bitcoin concensus rules, not what it's used for.

2025-05-22 07:25:28 UTC

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GM, recycling at its finest.

2025-05-20 13:39:35 UTC

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Next step, they will request you let them in for an audit of the cash.
Then they will ask for a spare key for your home.

2025-05-15 07:39:27 UTC

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I don't like the way decisions are taken and knowledgeable people get banned, but I strongly disagree with Mechanic's point that "I don't want to route your transactions because they're spam".
There needs to be a default of routing ALL VALID transactions, otherwise how exactly is the network supposed to work?
For my node, I have 0 incentive to route YOUR transactions, monetary or otherwise, I don't care. I only want mine.
If nodes (node operators) think this way, we won't have any propagation in the end, or we'll pay centralized routing nodes instead of everyone supporting it.

2025-05-13 08:30:50 UTC

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Depending on the use case, Aqua is quite great.

2025-05-09 03:29:27 UTC

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Paying with a card:
- find your wallet and pull out your physical card (similar for digital; however, some payment processors don't allow pasting, lol)
- enter your quite long details in 3 different fields
- 2fa page loading; no it doesn't, close your VPN and try again (or 2fa notification arrived but you are logged out. Please login to the mobile app again)
- refresh, start from scratch
- 2fa page loaded, input the 6-digit code
- success!
Paying with LN:
- open wallet app on the phone
- scan the qr code
- tap pay, done!

2025-05-05 15:48:56 UTC

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iTerm2, because I'm on a Mac, so what else?

2025-05-03 07:10:03 UTC

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Spain might be the first, but similar rules will be applied in all members of the European Union: https://accountancyeurope.eu/publications/navigating-the-eu-anti-money-laundering-regulation/
#landofthefree

2025-05-02 07:35:02 UTC

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A npub/pkey - locked ecash, embedded in a BTC transaction's OP_RETURN.
Nice.
But in reality, I think cashu tokens are too big to fit in OP_RETURN, no?

2025-04-17 08:39:51 UTC

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Move where?

2025-03-31 03:38:57 UTC

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"it just works" happened, combined with app-centric OSes.
Technology now caters to everyone, not just geeks.
It must work, even for grandmas.
Hence, no tinkering is needed, and many times isn't even possible (iOS, for example).
What really stumps me is that people don't know or understand basic filesystem structure.
They don't know about files/folders any more, as is the paradigm on desktop, in contrast with app-centric OSes.
They know apps, with their content. Many don't care to have their files offline, saved on disk, back them up etc. They work with them in the context of an app, and assume the app will always be there with their files, notes, documents, photos.