Economic empowerment means not having to sell your future to survive your present

Authentication is hard, authorization is harder. Multi factor authentication is hard, multi party authorization is even harder.

Tired

It’s amazing to me how many people seem utterly incapable of configuring software to make their lives easier. What literally takes about two minutes can save them hundreds of hours, yet they won’t do it. Spend some time configuring something or automating something you’ve put off.

Alright, conference over. Is it time to go back to the old friendly avatar?

Get your bolt cards at the BTC Vegas official merch store

Bitcoin is money!

CNBC

Block's bitcoin checkout goes live in Vegas, a significant step in making it 'everyday money'

Square is piloting real-time bitcoin payments at Bitcoin 2025, letting people scan and spend crypto for T-shirts, hoodies, and hats.

Friday night, I’m vibe coding lightning payments

You can just do things. Big things.

Pro tip for being a good security engineer, instead of trying to make your peers fear the consequences of a vulnerability, invite them to play with the vulnerability and learn the risks themselves. Give them some working exploit code or demo. Show them the cool trick, then let them imagine the risks. Only elaborate on the risks after they accept the invitation to play. Fear is tyranny. Play is collaborative.

Hierarchy and meeting cadences kill innovation. “Let’s wait for the next fortnightly sync to ask the boss” is weapons-grade anti-momentum.

“Life moves pretty fast. You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

The ai slop bots are showing up on nostr. The quantity is more funny than annoying right now, but they will improve and maybe realize the em-dashes and “emoji bullets” give them away. I don’t want an algorithm, but I am thinking a community built bot blocker might be good.