Zsubmariner

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2026-09-06 23:29:44 UTC

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Yes, "we are the white hats, we are the red team" would be great cover. Wouldn't it
... *cough*
#nevent1q…d03m

2026-09-03 23:42:39 UTC

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IMO, the answer to "one man show" is "so what". There is always a leader or an inventor when things start. Every time someone takes initiative, people with no sense of agency naysay and "one man show". Satoshi was a one man show, until he wasn't. It's a meaningless argument against all agents of change.

2026-09-03 20:59:10 UTC

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Just enter it into your wallet of choice. If, for instance, you are using sparrow on tails, just use that seed, generate a receive address and do a test transaction to send a few sats to it. Confirm that you can recover. All the usual things. Go slow, take care.

2026-08-31 21:08:17 UTC

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I think this is a dark chapter for Bitcoin, but it is still our best hope and the fight is not over. Bitcoin will either be decentralized and secure peer-to-peer electronic cash or it will be captured as part of fiat and we will have to build something else.

2026-08-28 00:39:22 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/c38ea294f37c7a2e29dfbd194649876e9ca40b60bd367fe78a5e804f1f2231a2.jpg

2026-08-22 18:53:03 UTC

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Yeah, it's a good thing. I don't disagree.

2026-08-22 08:31:23 UTC

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Its not about the legalism, though. It's about the culture. We tend say "open source good" or whatever. I have realized over the years that its not so much about the form. Its about people and intent. Legalism can alwats be perverted. Integrity is always a human question . This is the good guys fighting back and I'm here for it. Watching Linux get captured over the last 15 years has been brutal. Taking it back would be a great victory and a model for reclaiming Bitcoin. Cede no ground.

2026-08-22 03:25:45 UTC

This is how you resist capture. Good job @nprofile…nj96
https://youtu.be/-GiugFOFI_w

2026-08-22 03:14:39 UTC

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Funny, I saw this and thought of you.

2026-08-21 03:19:46 UTC

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Raise your entropy. Defend your entropy.
#nevent1q…0tum

2026-08-21 03:17:28 UTC

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😞

2026-08-14 16:54:23 UTC

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Self-custody is not a gadget. There is no easy button.
Hardware wallets became synonymous with self custody but they were the wrong model all along. Hardware wallets are dead.

2026-08-14 03:35:57 UTC

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Not the way things are. But one day they will. I am sure many would thought the notion of everyone driving was ludicrous. Nothing ever changes until it does

2026-08-13 21:53:04 UTC

Your hands. Your eyes. 5 dice and a numbered list of words.
It IS NOT hard.
And it is the best education in self-custody you will ever get. It will click for you: "this is my secret and it is all mine, to keep or lose."
Then the whole game of cryptography is made clear to you.
The rest is just details of how you handle that secret.
Keeping the secret while you use it still requires paying careful attention. But now you know the name of the game.
If you protect that secret, everything that it protects is yours and yours alone.
That is self-custody.

2026-08-12 22:46:23 UTC

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Quantum threat is an unfalsifiable trust-the-experts group-think boogieman. When someone brings it up, I ask myself how they are using it to advance their agenda. Are they an ambitious dev looking for a way to be important? A company digging a regulatory moat? An agency expanding their power with security initiatives? Media looking for clicks? Or just someone trying to suck up to or fit in?

2026-08-12 17:29:51 UTC

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I don't know yet

2026-08-12 09:01:35 UTC

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Even in Bitcoin, there are Weimar vibes.

2026-08-12 07:28:11 UTC

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😂

2026-08-12 05:22:56 UTC

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Thanks. I have warmed up to the idea of the split even more and I should say I don't think it constitutes giving up or crashing out. It puts pressure on the old chain to fix the capture problem. Or insurance if it doesn't.
I mean, I wish we were doing better against capture and this never happened, but we have to deal with it somehow

2026-08-12 04:40:27 UTC

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A starting pistol or a bell, as long as everybody hears it at the same time?

2026-08-12 03:20:13 UTC

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I showed this to my 8 yrld a d he loved it. Thanks

2026-08-12 00:06:23 UTC

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I'm sorry but this solves a non-probem. A pack of dice from the toy store, an old shoe box and a printed table to look up words is fine.

2026-08-11 23:59:26 UTC

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Yeah, using tails for specific uses is more handy. Qubes is just too clunky

2026-08-11 23:57:42 UTC

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That's actually the problem. They built it for a dissident journalist. Which is great, but it would be better as two projects: a technical layer and a usability layer built over it

2026-08-11 22:30:29 UTC

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I don't think this matters much. Open source code quality is not necessarily better. It's about the culture, practices and resources of whomever is responsible. Verifiable source transparency is primarily a security benefit because of public accountability and an open license ensures the code you depend on can't be taken away. Open source, as practiced, as a big hippy drum circle, is a mess. Everybody is building on a thousand dependencies that they assume someone else has read. Piles of third party trust and not enough accountability. Deep layers of supply chain with unknown build and distribution security.
This model is ending the way that the insecure free-for-all of the early internet era had to end. AI is making it easier to build more responsibly without commits from an unaccountable mob and easier to get powned if you don't. It not that AI really changes the equation, but it scales some key variables.

2026-08-11 22:12:31 UTC

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Yeah, I don't think core itself is recoverable. I've been watching open source projects get captured for a long long time. It's cooked.

2026-08-11 21:23:06 UTC

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The more I think about it, the more bullish I am on this split. If we can't beat the capture of the main chain, the Knotts chain is an insurance policy. It puts competitive pressure on the main chain to clean up. Either way. Let the true Bitcoin win.
@nprofile…c93l and co, thank you again for your principled work
#nevent1q…kzqc

2026-08-11 21:02:37 UTC

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Qubes is so clunky. Somebody needs to make a tighter variant of that architectural concept. Split ssh/gpg is awesome. I've been hoping for years

2026-08-11 18:01:17 UTC

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*people deserve

2026-08-09 02:12:03 UTC

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Core was already dead