Democracy 🤣
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I'm eyeing #Bark. It works smoothly! I even built myself a Bark wallet with AI and a POS on satoshi.si NIP05 page. Needs a bit of polishing but it works 🧹
Ark transactions are instant and basically free between Ark wallets
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And the implementation is stupidly easy thanks to what @Second is building 👏 and my patient clankers of course.
(I haven't tried other providers yet).
But I'm still not sure how I should feel about expiring VTXOs.
For active users, I can absolutely see the use case.
Bark Pay for merchants who regularly move funds around makes a lot of sense. The same goes for groups of people who transact with each other regularly. It's fast, cheap, and convenient.
Where I'm less convinced is onboarding someone who's completely new to Bitcoin.
Newcomers aren't going to think about periodically refreshing VTXOs, keeping wallet data backed up, or doing the mental gymnastics required to recover an old wallet.
Imagine someone receives some Bitcoin as a gift, forgets about it, and comes back two years later. Their VTXOs may have long since expired, and the ASP may have swept the funds according to the protocol.
And on the other side, that's a good thing — because no coins are ever lost and all of them eventually come back into circulation ♻️
That's a very different experience from the Bitcoin expectation of: "Keep your keys, come back in 10 years, and your sats are still there."
How expired funds are ultimately handled will probably differ from ASP to ASP. An ASP could choose to let users reclaim them later, but relying on that introduces a trust/policy assumption that ordinary on-chain Bitcoin doesn't have.
So I see Ark/Bark as potentially great for active spending and receiving payments as a merchant. I'm just not convinced yet that expiring VTXOs are a good fit for newcomers.
#Ark is not "set it and forget it" Bitcoin — but time will tell.
Looks promising 🧡
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One of the best part of being single is that you can use your dining table as your "office" table and your coffee table as your dining table every single day 🧦.
Testing something. 2/2
Testing something. Try 1/2
And she's free 🤣
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We all know what word #oligarch is, but did you know there are also #middlegarchs.
Worth listening
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/25/nx-s1-5981194/stealthy-wealthy-everywhere-millionaires-pass-through
What a fuck do they want now? 
Can there be even more KYC on top of KYC? Hard-working regulators are doing all they can to tighten plebs' options for buying the scarcest asset.
Aha, third-party persona verification. Again?
Not this time! Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!
I'm out!
Can there be even more KYC on top of KYC? Hard-working regulators are doing all they can to tighten plebs' options for buying the scarcest asset.
Aha, third-party persona verification. Again?
Not this time! Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me!
I'm out!
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Are books about programing languages still relevant?
#askNostr
Anyone have buzz .apk? I can't believe the only option is google play store for the download. @jack 🤷
Just spun up my old IdeaPad after years of collecting dust.
It was running Kali on 2009-era hardware… and it was painfully sluggish.
Couldn’t install Hermes on it directly, so I had my other Hermes SSH in and work some magic.
Now this silicon geek has completely revived that old rubbish — hermes-cli and all.
Modern penetration testing rig on almost 2 decade-old rusty hardware 🤙
Everybody is yelling but nobody is listening ~@npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9
Apparently, Revolut giving away our personal data isn’t all that’s happened recently.
DriveWealth, the broker responsible for stock trading on Revolut's platform was hacked, and there goes our personal data into the hands of black-hat hackers yet again.
Frankly, any company that leaks user data should be fined automatically and forced to compensate every affected person for the cost of renewing their documents (ID, driver’s license, passport, etc.). That should be the absolute bare minimum!
But here’s the idiocy designed to strip power from the people:
Under EU data protection regulations (GDPR Article 82), to claim financial compensation, you have to prove actual damage. Either a direct financial loss or proven non-material distress resulting from the breach. Because actual ID card numbers weren't explicitly leaked this time, companies will outright reject compensation for document renewals unless you can prove identity theft has already occurred.
So basically, you first need to be scammed, extorted, or ruined before you're granted a single cent in compensation. What a complete joke.
I bet EU realized that taking care of their sanctioned luxury yachts is unsustainable.
The general rule is to spend 10% of the yacht value every year on maintenance.
Alisher Usmanov’s superyacht, Dilbar — which was seized in Hamburg, has a market price of around $750 million, so the cost of mooring, insurance and upkeep will be probably around 90-100 million annually. And that's not the only yacht the west seized.
Luckily taxpayers have money to cover those bills 🤦
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Have you ever worked so hard that your phone’s fingerprint sensor just gives up on you?
I built a stone retaining wall recently… and now my fingers are so wrecked that even my phone is like, “Sorry, who dis?”
Why the University nees student financial data?
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