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If you pay for goods and services with Bitcoin but mentally convert the price to fiat terms you’re suffering from the oracle problem. That’s a vulnerability. The fiat exchange rate can be manipulated to nearly arbitrary degree and usually to the bitcoin holder’s disadvantage.

Anyone here making badass hot sauce and selling for Bitcoin? Something that rivals Cholula and Sriracha for a daily driver? #asknostr

You can just buy things. Check out: - @Great Ghee for ghee - @SoapMiner for soap - @npub1swee...ns6h for honey and syrup - @Oshi (推し) for nut butter and bars

Dropped half a dozen eggs on the ground right after making them this morning. Guess that’s the universe’s way of telling me to eat leftover pizza for breakfast.

Let’s get out and raise awareness, anon. Call, text, email, send smoke signals, hire a hooker, whatever it takes to get your Congresspeople’s attention just do it. View quoted note →

The real signal will be when these “Bitcoin treasury” companies offer to pay their employees in bitcoin. Until then it’s all NGU noise. It doesn’t have to be 100% of people’s paychecks: let the employee decide what percentage they want paid in sats. Even better: treat it like a retirement plan and offer an x% match like some companies do in the US for 401Ks. If the company leadership and board are truly orange pilled they should be offering this. At some point it will be a competitive advantage to have that “sats match” as an alternative to 401K match.

In case anyone else missed this headline from last week:

Bitcoin Magazine

CEO Paolo Ardoino Said, “Tether Will Be The Biggest Bitcoin Miner In The World”

The CEO of Tether Paolo Ardoino talked about the investments, inventions and Bitcoin mining of Tether.

Learning out loud here. It’s a line of thinking and not a complete one at that. Does the OP_RETURN debate boil down to: what is your preference for mempool topology? Continuous or discrete? Preference is the operative word there because the mempool at the moment is discrete with many private mempools holding transactions that are only made public once added to a block. Should we stop that? We can't do it without a fork and is there a compelling argument for making that backwards incompatible change? While it's not ideal, a competing mining pool can see the lucrative private transactions and if it's worth the effort they can try rewriting that block. There's no solution to the "out of band payments" problem. That would require "out of band" enforcement for a global network spanning different cities, cultures, jurisdictions, etc. That means we're likely stuck with a discrete topology whether we like it or not. Then the argument seems to boil down to where on the spectrum of "sieve to plane" (a sieve has many holes while a plane has none) should a mempool be to serve the biggest market? In my view a free market most likely serves the most people. Let the people doing the proof of work hash it out.

A short read to bring balance to the vibe coding conversation 😂

Just fucking code.

The Oslo Freedom Forum is the real bitcoin conference going on right now. View quoted note →

Did you know that the fastest way to gain weight is to eat just a single bite of nuclear pasta?

Nuclear pasta - Wikipedia

golang could benefit from something like “defer” but for for-loop bodies. If you open files in a loop you don’t want to defer closing them because then you have a lot of open file handles, but if you don’t use defer then you have to explicitly close them anywhere you have an error check or “continue” in the loop body. Sure you can solve that by creating a new function for that loop body and do the defer in there but sometimes that can lead to other code smells. It would also be convenient for zeroing out slices in each loop.

My initial thought was that merchants would have to enable it but it sounds like it’s coming to everyone by default. This is a big deal. View quoted note →

Are you a NGU fan? A HODL maxi? Then you should be the loudest proponent of bitcoin payments because the more demand we put on the network the more valuable your stack becomes. Don’t settle for “store of value” arguments.

2025 is heating up 🔥 First it was Steak ‘n Shake and soon Square merchants will be able to accept bitcoin payments nationwide. View quoted note →

Scratched my go kart itch this weekend and it was just as fun as I’d hoped! View quoted note →