The seed oil "cause of every disease" people are straight up lunatics. No matter how much I purge, my feed is still always peppered by them.

Playing with Gossip again. I much prefer it to using nostr on the browser. The only thing that comes even close is noStrudel. I can set much higher PoW settings on Gossip though since it uses all cores/threads 😁

The "general public" is incredibly stupid. I don't see how self-custody in its current state is even feasible for 90% of the population. We're talking about the same people who would go buy gift cards to pay "the IRS" when someone with an indian accent calls them. We already see the shitcoin space and how retarded people can be with a) financial decisions but more importantly b) with securing their keys. And that sample of idiots is above average when it comes to tech literacy. Things like Bitkey that abstract securing the private key away from you are a good first step but even that isn't idiot proof. Is the average joe doomed to rely on custodians due to their own stupidity? Bitcoin isn't fiat, there is no undo button or a bank to eat the loss.

Someone sent me a random (non trivial) amount of Tether on Liquid on a test wallet I was playing with I never even posted an address

Friendly reminder that Aqua is fucking fantastic and you should give it a try: https://aquawallet.io Also slightly controversial opinion but Liquid+swaps > e-cash for any amount >2000 sats when it comes to usability. I'd rank things: Self-custody BTC/LN > Liquid+LN swaps* > e-cash** > custodial LN** * self-custody but permissioned network - kinda workable for zaps >2k given the new 0.01sat/vb rates. ** no self-custody

Can the weather kinda chill I don't have AC here pls I'm SOGGY. I never thought that term would describe me.

Gotta love traditional banking where a correspondent bank that you have zero relation with can casually skim a 60 USD fee on a SWIFT transfer (that took two weeks to arrive) 🥰🥰🥰 If you're wondering... it's a 4 figure sum, peanuts. Madness.

Man the Blockstream Jade is absolutely tiny! It's so compact that videos don't do it justice. You don't need to be very brave to smuggle this into certain places 😂🫡

Odd behavior with the bitcoin-core flatpak from flathub - I don't see any new updates or changes to the packaging github. Version 27.1 currently installed. And yet, today I see that there is a <30 MB update available.. to 27.1 with no possibility to see what changed or what it contains. Huh?

Opinion from a Non-EU observer: You know, people shit on the EU a lot due to a lot of their regulations sounding (and well, being) a bit dystopian. But if you look into it without preconceptions, the regulations make sense a lot of the time **as long as** EU institutions are democratically run and reflect the will of the people. So the solution is simple, be more active in EU elections and EU institutions, make sure you're actively participating and don't just disregard them in favor of local elections. If more EU citizens actually understood the importance and took them as seriously as national elections, the system would work a lot better. You can't opt out, you're simply silencing yourself.

Slothy lightning node is officially shutdown - scrubbing logs and database. 🫡 Before closing we had 42 channels and 1.86 BTC in capacity. Thank you to all peers.

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Slothy 🦥⚡🇹🇳 Tunisia is a Lightning Network node with - channels and a total capacity of - sats (0.00 BTC). Explore channel details, fee ...