really enjoyed this from matt balez. a few things stuck: i learned subcent api fees via usdc on base is easy. a few weeks ago in vegas i highlighted this a unique value prop for bitcoin agentic payments. i was wrong. still true that stablecoins are inherently censorable, and freezable at any time. they don't optimize for human freedom. stablecoin privacy is very spooky. the fact that you can feed an agent's etherscan history to chatgpt and id the merchant should scare everyone. "open source AI deserves open source money" is a banger. how do we meme this into existence? watching steinberger go anti "crypto" was rough. surprised usdt on lightning wasn't covered. i know usdc has the regulatory momentum rn but @speedwallet 's wallet's usdt/lightning ux is quite good. they address the volatility and short term usd obligation point all on the ln network. we can have a convo about the tradeoffs re censorship resistance, but i think bitcoin builders can learn a lot from speed.

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Spiral PM Mat Balez weighs the relative merits of stablecoins vs bitcoin for agentic payments and nudges us towards the more neutral option.

spoke at vegas a few weeks ago on lightning and ecash. @npub1xapj...cnde moderated, @EVAN KALOUDIS and Alex held it down on @ZEUS and @Fedi . fun one. thanks for having me.

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thanks @SoapMiner

primal following notifications have become totally unusable. everyday i’m followed by like 50 bots.

anyone else getting a flood of followers lately? open claw bots working overtime.

this is a prized possession. out of print. very rare.

satoshi thought like a ux designer. check out his comment on why base58 over base64. base58 removes 0, O, I, l (look identical). removes + and / (forms accept it). all alphanumeric (double click selects all). base64 is more efficient but he optimized for real world use.

if your hobbies do not improve the quality of your thinking, then they are a theft of your time and a sabotage of your spirit.

opus 4.6 -> plan -> build is game changing.

"You have to have some kind of a drive, some kind of a desire to find out the answer, a desire to find out what makes things tick. If you don’t have that, you may have all the training and intelligence in the world, but you won’t have questions and you won’t just find answers." — Calude Shannon (Claude Shannon at Bell Lab. March 20, 1952) https://www1.ece.neu.edu/~naderi/Claude%20Shannon.html

imo the best bitcoin narrative is framing it as a public utility. the first truly public payments infrastructure we’ve ever had. public as in open to everyone regardless of race, religion, or political allegiance.

you should care about craft. that last 10%.

openclaw identity.md should dynamically update based on what it learns. soul.md could remain the same.

cashu is untraceable machine to machine electronic cash.

redesigned the mint rating and review ui for cashu.me now you can see what mints your friends trust and leave reviews. wanted it to feel like getting a recommendation from someone you know. web of trust does helps do the vetting for you. see a mint with all reviews, then you can toggle to only show web of trust. ratings recalculate in real time based only on reviews from people in your web of trust. if you don't really use nostr like that, then cashu.me comes with a built in web of trust based on based bitcoiners. this is now live in prod. give it a try and let me know what you think. please report and UI issues or bugs too.

This is the place @npub16c0n...6nvr.

Spent all evening showing throwing ecash at people. This way of tossing people bitcoin is special, people react to it really well. All credit due to the push UX of ecash.

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