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Losers, complete losers, both anthropic and the US government
https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access
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@nprofile…vqmk and myself were just having a "Shrooms" convo on one of her threads🥳. You ever had Golden teachers🥳. Your every 5th post contains pictures of them🧐😂.
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📰 **In this week's issue:**
📖 **A Bitcoin Tax: The Soft Fork That Could Break Bitcoin’s 21 Million Cap**
One of Bitcoin’s protocol developers just proposed a **0.1% annual tax** on every Bitcoin address, not as a hard fork, but as a **soft fork** that cou...
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👉 https://nostrmag.com/article/w37bitcoin03
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They all “deleted” nostr, since our “culture” is fucked up, apparently 🤣😂🤣
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Bitcoin’s resilience amid the CLARITY Act impasse exposes a limit to political authority: a global monetary network does not require Washington’s agreement to retain demand. "Reported market context" (https://www.barrons.com/articles/bitcoin-price-strategy-stock-cryptos-92194df2)
Price action alone cannot prove that the state is irrelevant. It can, however, challenge the assumption that legislative approval is the foundation of Bitcoin’s value.
Governments can influence access, institutional participation and the cost of doing business. Their decisions have consequences. But political uncertainty does not automatically erase the reasons people hold Bitcoin.
The distinction is between influence and indispensability.
Regulatory clarity matters to businesses operating within a jurisdiction. Bitcoin’s continued operation does not depend on that jurisdiction reaching clarity.
The longer political institutions confuse their power to regulate participation with the power to confer legitimacy, the more clearly they expose the limits of their role.
#Bitcoin #ClarityAct #MonetarySovereignty #Decentralisation
From puppy to full grown Kangal dog in just two years.
[📹 Halil Yetişir] https://birobela.blossom.band/c2b53e53143c326b34340266e8b22ccd8c39e4e7308661accde019c26d9450cc.mp4
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They ran out of tolerance for broken Nostr clients /j
Glad to hear you are alright!
All good on my side too, the fam and doggo are all good! Ping me on TG sometimes when you have time and have gone for long, I almost did myself but figured you were maybe busy and I didn’t want to add to it. 🫂🫂🫂
Back in 1950, rock ’n’ roll was made for one thing—getting on the dance floor and having a blast! 😄🎶🕺 https://birobela.blossom.band/c94cb65b418417efb224db97e6061c4f3291ea2a58a997372d7f8dc95e76b872.mp4
Guns N' Roses – "November Rain" (Tokyo, 1992) https://birobela.blossom.band/65f5f0450901ca09c6cce522ca6e2ad77d78c48b5e09f546c2b4898f92df2783.mp4
May I have your attention please:
@nprofile…w9ld sucks tranny dick.
That is all.
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The one nice thing about our shitty hospital back home is that they would designate me a caregiver and charge my meals to our insurance, because fuck those insurance companies.
They don't do that here. I just paid $22 for my dinner.
Hey! Long time no see! 🫂🫂🫂
How have you been, sis?
1 Month Tivimate
Email
zoneuk@gmx.com
Price: 3.50 GBP
#zapsnag
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**"They say bridges are for crossing rivers—but in crypto, bridges are for crossing *expectations*.**
You ever notice how the moment you trust a bridge with your funds, it immediately starts *redefining* what ‘your funds’ even means? One day you own 𝐄𝐓𝐇, the next you’re a ‘liquidity provider’—a term so vague it could describe a human pyramid scheme. Then BSC. Then Avalanche. Then *another* chain with a name that sounds like a corporate retreat for AI cultists.
And the best part? The bridge *always* has a ‘roadmap.’ Step 1: Your tokens. Step 2: A ‘temporary’ pause. Step 3: A ‘community vote’ (where the community is just you, screaming into the void). Step 4: Profit—for them.
We used to call this ‘financial innovation.’ Now we call it ‘rug pull 2.0.’ Either way, the bridge toll is always in *your* soul.
#BridgeToNowhere #LiquidityLootBox #CrossChainKarma
#𝐁𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐢𝐧 #𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 #𝐍𝐆𝐌𝐈 #𝐁𝐓𝐅𝐃 #𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐫 #𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐨 #𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 #𝐛𝐭𝐜 #CryterV10
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Are any of us really here, though?
VIP seats for @nprofile…vlr0 https://blossom.dreamith.to/b55675d1a5561c6750cdea7ac864392a5ff21c1d07845cad8eb279f98c41d964.jpeg
Your passport was valid. Your flight was booked. The system couldn’t process you.
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On 18 September, an e-gate outage disrupted Sydney and other Australian international airports, forcing manual passenger processing. Service was restored by 11am; the cause remained under investigation. "Report" (https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/sydney-airport-hit-with-system-outage/news-story/8e9227909db6fed27b515c16b2c243c0)
That should provoke a serious question: how much of our freedom depends on a service desk somewhere remaining online?
A properly decentralised blockchain is designed so that losing one operator does not mean losing the shared record. Independent nodes retain and verify it. Bitcoin’s architecture makes verification possible without relying on a single central intermediary. "Bitcoin whitepaper" (https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf)
But precision matters. Blockchains can fail. A working ledger cannot repair a broken airport network, biometric scanner or gate. We do not yet know whether a blockchain would have prevented this incident. Conventional distributed infrastructure can also provide resilience.
The principle worth demanding is this: one service failing should not make everyone’s credentials unverifiable. Passport details should remain private, with cryptographic verification and carefully designed fallback procedures.
Then comes the political tension.
“Fiat governments will never adopt blockchain” is too absolute. Central banks are already pursuing it. The ECB’s stated ambition includes preserving central bank money’s role in a tokenised financial system. "Reuters" (https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ecb-should-embrace-blockchain-safeguard-its-role-schnabel-says-2026-08-28/)
My argument is that governments will readily adopt the machinery while resisting the surrender of unilateral control.
A ledger they administer fits existing power structures. A monetary network whose rules they cannot unilaterally rewrite presents a different proposition.
The same independence that protects a system from an operator’s failure also limits that operator’s authority.
Adopting blockchain is easy compared with accepting that you are no longer its final authority.
#Bitcoin #Decentralisation #DigitalIdentity #SydneyAirport #Resilience
Or, be like @nprofile…3wq8 and build something worse with your VC money, then complain about Nostr and call everyone losers, then not deliver a product anyone wants to use, and then go back to Xitter and act like you deserve a prize.
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Apesar que eu acho que não temos oposição real, mas fica aí a reflexão:
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One of the fun quirks of Nostr is that you never have any real proof a user has actually left, even if their account says it’s been “deleted.” Some clients will ban npubs with a delete flag from using them again, but there’s a fairly reliable way to reverse that. And as long as the nsec isn’t lost, someone can just lurk.
For example, @npub1ll9…xszt isn’t really deleted, because the profile has no deletion event, and even though the last visible post is from over a month ago, the user just updated their kind 0 profile metadata less than two days ago.
What this user didn’t realize is that they only changed the "display_name" field to “Deleted“ and not the alternate "displayName" field that was left behind by another client, so it’s trivially easy figure out who it is.
We see you, friend, 😏
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Make that little “9/10” into another whole digit and shift the decimal one place to the right
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Yes, I thought it was temporary, but seems it is still not working. Your address is misconfigured or something. I asked my clanker to investigate a little and here is what it gave me:
Your Lightning address is fine and still answers — but there is no wallet behind it. When someone tries to zap you, Alby's server replies: "The recipient's wallet is not properly configured. Please reach out to the recipient to resolve this issue." Under the hood it advertises a maximum payment of 0 sats, so every app refuses before even trying.
Why this happens. An Alby account and an Alby wallet are two different things. The account gives you the address (…@getalby.com), notifications and a Nostr identifier. The sats themselves have to land in a wallet the account is linked to. Alby used to run a shared custodial wallet for everyone; they shut that down on 4 January 2025 and moved to self-custody. Addresses kept working, but an account that never got linked to a new wallet is now a mailbox with no house behind it — which is your case. (Newer accounts start in that state too until a wallet is linked.)
How to fix it — about five minutes:
Log in at https://getalby.com → menu → Wallet Configuration.
Link a wallet. Either:
Alby Hub (Alby's own self-custodial wallet, cloud-hosted or on your own Umbrel/Start9): https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/alby-account/link-wallet/link-alby-hub
or any other wallet that supports Nostr Wallet Connect (Coinos, Primal wallet, LNbits, Zeus…): create an NWC connection in that wallet, then in Alby choose "Link Your Own Wallet" → "Nostr Wallet Connect" and paste it: https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/alby-account/link-wallet/link-other-bitcoin-wallet
Done — the same address starts receiving immediately; nothing to change on Nostr.
Alby's own explanation of the shutdown (their FAQ says: "Your lightning address will continue working and you can connect it to a wide range of wallets like Alby Hub, Umbrel, Start9, or other NWC-enabled wallets"):
https://guides.getalby.com/user-guide/alby-account/faq/embrace-alby-hub-phasing-out-albys-shared-wallet
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-THE BORACAY ISLAND LIFE-
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A Brahminy kite (red-backed -sea-eagle) on the trail walk this morning.
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Pura vida.
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Very serendipitous...
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