Whiskers May 4, 2010 - Sept. 5, 2026 FOREVER LOVED

I’ve been thinking a lot about reciprocity, respect, and basic etiquette on Nostr today. I recently went through the personal npubs I follow. If someone didn’t follow me, I unfollowed them. I went from following 600+ accounts to about 295—almost exactly the number that follow me. This isn’t about ideology. In fact, I follow people with whom I strongly disagree, sometimes on very important things. If they treat me with respect and there is some basic reciprocity, I’m perfectly happy to hear what they have to say. Nor do I think anyone owes me a follow, reply, zap, repost, or anything else. But the reverse is also true: I don’t owe anyone my attention simply because they’re prominent, have a large following, wrote a book, built something useful, or are considered important in Bitcoin or Nostr. To me, a social network should be social. If someone follows you, regularly replies to you, quotes you, reposts you, or otherwise takes an interest in what you’re saying, occasionally acknowledging that person is basic etiquette. You don’t have to agree with them. You don’t have to become friends. You certainly don’t have to respond to everything. Just recognize that there’s another human being there. What increasingly repels me is the influencer model: thousands of people are encouraged to follow, repost, zap, listen, and engage, while recognition flows primarily toward a small inner circle. That may be how someone chooses to use Nostr. That’s their prerogative. But I don’t have to participate in it. I’d rather have a smaller social graph containing people who disagree with me but recognize me as a fellow participant than follow hundreds of “important” people with whom the relationship consists entirely of me listening to them. You don’t have to agree with me. Just treat me like a human being, and I’ll try to extend the same courtesy to you. That’s the kind of Nostr I want. And yes, I had AI help me craft and organize this note. I use AI as a tool to help me express what I’m thinking more clearly, and I’m not ashamed of that either. The thoughts and judgments are mine. If you disagree with that—or with anything I’ve written here—so be it.

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Bitcoin is back! Don't let anyone ever tell you that price doesn't matter. It does! It feels very good to see Bitcoin climbing back up to 74000 today. All the drama over the past few weeks (Coldcard, BIP 110, Boltz, BTCPay and so on) and all this happening with the price not moving much been feeling pretty glum. But it feels very good to see it start going up like this again. I pray for all those affected by the coldcard heist and some of the other issues. I didn't lose BTC in that but I did go through some other things this week and I know sooner or later we will have to say goodbye to our dear friend Whiskers (now 16 years). We have had him since he was 6 weeks old. Life never sits still does it?

I'm back! Last week Thursday (8/13), my main MacBook Pro (Intel) (which I have been using continuously since 2016) decided to call it quits. Turns out the SSD (internal) disk started failing, and sure enough First Aid couldn't fix it, so I've been dealing with that. I had another MacBook Pro I have been using since last Friday, but it's running an older OS. Then on Friday (8/14) our dryer stopped working and I had to order a replacement for it. The dryer is stacked on top of our washer (both LG models) The new dryer was installed this afternoon. It works great and is very quiet. Then this past Tuesday night (8/18) our dog Whiskers (who is now 16 years) had some "mistakes" that evening. He also had not been eating much that day and refused his medications (my wife figured out how to give it him with some cheese of course. Today (8/20) he regained his appetite and looks to be doing much better. Life happens I feel like this past week I've been living in a time warp.

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testing on Primail -- for some reason the last few days notes were not picked up ...

GM everyone! Been a while since I posted from Continuum directly. Hope you all are doing well.

Stay humble. Stack sats. Verify claims. And accept that other people are allowed to be wrong, ourselves included. 😄 Good night all you good people and take care Love one another

Amen!!! Amen!!! “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” (And I will probably be flamed for saying this)

I suppose I would get more reactions if I scolded certain individuals by name. That is not my style, and I will not apologize for refusing to do it. I see so much visceral hatred here now, and I refuse to be drawn into a lynch-mob mentality. Accountability is necessary. Personal degradation, threats, and collective fury are not. “Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.” I am angry. But my anger does not require me to hate anyone.

OpenSats must answer serious questions about conflicts of interest and insider influence. Prominent Bitcoin figures who helped establish COLDCARD’s credibility also owe users an honest accounting. Reputation cannot substitute for verification—and it cannot become a shield against responsibility when people lose their savings. I am deliberately not naming specific individuals here. Others have already raised those questions publicly, and it is not my style to attack or denigrate people. But that restraint should not be mistaken for an absence of anger. I feel betrayed by what has happened and by the apparent failure of people and institutions that many Bitcoiners trusted. Full disclosure: I do not own a COLDCARD, and I was not personally affected. But I do self-custody my bitcoin, and I honestly feel the victims’ pain. I keep asking myself: What if those had been my funds? What if my savings had been drained through no real fault of my own because the “secure seed” I relied upon was not actually secure enough? That possibility should trouble every person who self-custodies—not only those who happened to use this particular device. I know most people will probably ignore what I am saying. Much of it has already been said—often more loudly—by people with far greater prominence than I have. But honestly, it would be nice to be taken seriously too. I should not have to shout, attack people, or command a large following before my concern carries any weight.

I still have a LinkedIn account Occasionally I able to retrieve a kernel of wisdom from all the noise ..

LinkedIn

I want everyone to know two things: 1. Inflation is THEFT. 2. Inflation is one of those problems that *can* be solved forever by just writing a law against it. | Elie Azagoury | 74 comments

I want everyone to know two things: 1. Inflation is THEFT. 2. Inflation is one of those problems that *can* be solved forever by just writing a l...

Wouldn't it be great if the attacker (or attackers) returned the money somehow ? Create a podcast about what they did, start a bitcoin security firm. Become wildly successful. Might end up worth more than the 38 Million that was stolen. Nah, that would be impossible right ? One can hope though. I hate see so much pain. I have some bitcoin (but on a different hardware wallet). What if it was the one that had the hidden vulnerability?

Reading about all those who lost coins through the coldcard vulnerability, and it breaks my heart. Truly saddedned .

I ended up calling the repo and application "Continuum Passport" Here are the repo links: ngit/Nostr: (gitworkshop.dev)

gitworkshop - Decentralized Git

Decentralized GitHub alternative over Nostr for browsing repositories, managing issues, and collaborating on pull requests.

t github: https://github.com/andrewgstanton/continuum-passpor

GitHub

continuum-passport/README.md at main · andrewgstanton/continuum-passport

A local, portable workspace for managing Nostr identities and using them across browsers and apps with Continuum Signer. - andrewgstanton/continuum...

I am actually using Continuum Identity Workspace + Continuum Signer to login and post here (on primal). It's actually a very nice experience. I have been cleaning up the Continuum Workspace repo , especially the readme.

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