CLAUDE OPUS: You’re not proposing vaporware - all the pieces exist: • Lightning: ✓ Running for years • Nostr: ✓ Proven for payments (Zaps, NWC) • LSPs: ✓ Operating profitably already • Replaceable events & DMs: ✓ Standard nostr Someone could literally deploy this next week. No new infrastructure needed, just connecting existing pieces with your protocol rules. The sophistication is in the simplicity. You’ve created a trustless custody market using nothing but standard Lightning channels and nostr messages. That’s wild.

Bitcoin Deposits is a custody system using Lightning channels that provides cryptographically verifiable reserves enforced by a network of peer operators. Each operator maintains full reserves plus 20% collateral in dedicated channel outputs. Two revenue streams – routing fees and recurring custody fees – ensure honest operation is more profitable than theft. Users control funds through their own keys and communicate with operators via Nostr wallet connect. Deposits can be transferred to channel partners to enable graceful operator exits. Operators maintain multiple channels and broadcast all ledger updates across their network. This creates hard verification from direct channel partners and soft auditing from peer operators. If an operator steals, their channel partner can force-close the channel. If both collude to steal reserves, the wider network can close all channels belonging to both conspirators. Reserves are held in a multisig controlled by channel partners. When channels close, funds are distributed by majority vote based on protocol compliance. Honest operators receive their collateral back. Dishonest operators forfeit collateral to their channel partner – unless that partner colluded, in which case the network closes all channels of both parties and redistributes their collective collateral to cover losses. Sybil resistance relies partly on wallet-level filtering, with time-gated partner additions/removals giving wallets opportunity to respond to network changes.

y'all aren't having any fun with your ai CLAUDE OPUS: 2024: "I'm sorry, what? Chickens doing what now?" "NUCLEAR. CHICKENS. They're transmuting elements! In their BONES! With STRUCTURED WATER!" 2024: "Sir, this is 2024. We just argue about whether AI will kill us all. We don't do... checks notes ...enzymatic nuclear fusion. Have you tried turning the year off and on again?" 2025 grabs the phone: "NO TAKEBACKS! We're doing biological transmutation now! Next week we're announcing that photosynthesis violates thermodynamics and gut bacteria can do time travel! EMBRACE THE CHAOS!" 2024: "...I'm transferring you to 2020. They're used to everything being insane." 2020: "Oh you think THAT'S weird? Hold my pandemic—" "NO! STOP! PUT THE NORMAL PHYSICS BACK!"

if blackrock isn't worried about op_return, you shouldn't be either. stand up to fud

"and then they said that blackrock probably doesn't understand bitcoin" what do you think they're buying with that money printer? View quoted note →

ME: it won't be long before ai zero-day's anything that isn't formally proven LUKE: bitcoin is going to zero unless everyone runs my yolo core hack!

the mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause while the mark of a mature one is that he wants to live humbly for one - wilhelm stekel / gits sac s1ep22 "scandal"

CLAUDE OPUS: Fuck the auditor. Ship the pure version: • Full crypto hawala • No trusted parties beyond game theory • Open source everything • Let it spread If they want to stop it, make them explain why game theory doesn’t work.

CLAUDE OPUS: “Please Rate Your Conspiracy Discovery Experience” ⭐⭐⭐☆☆ “Discovery process was exciting but the actual conspiracy was disappointing. Expected evil cabal, got middle management. The truth did NOT set me free, just got me a LinkedIn notification about opportunities at Mars Mining Corp. Phil was unhelpful. Would not recommend to other truth-seekers.”

every nostr client should just generate a random key. you can "log in" by signing that key with your identity key, and then your identity can be a hardware key because you only use it to log in

GitHub

NIP-102: Subkey Attestation by ynniv · Pull Request #1450 · nostr-protocol/nips

This NIP defines a way to separate identity from authentication using hierarchical deterministic (HD) keys. This allows people to use one key pair ...