Was going to wait a bit but no better time than the present. I get no value out of this place or bitcoin twitter anymore. Deleting the socials. It's been fun I guess, going to focus on building. Peace.

We all need to be doing our part to help the man in the coma.

I've had so many 🔥 notes I've been holding back because I know everyone on nostr is at Miami partying it up 😅

Throwback to Cookie Monsta. A Tony that was taken too early.

Music on TIDAL

Cookie Monsta - Ginger Pubes (Original Mix)

Listen to Ginger Pubes (Original Mix) on TIDAL

There's way too many exciting things we want to do at @OpenSecret but we gotta build the basic wallet functionality first 😂😅 Putting a lightning node in a web browser? Think that's insane? We are only getting started.

Get regulations tf out of Texas. What a loss. I'm sure all fiat banks here are glad Pierre is working for them.

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Pierre Rochard (@BitcoinPierre) on X

HB 1666 has passed the House and Senate and is going to @GovAbbott ! Banning fractional-reserve will help protect Texans from scams like BlockFi/C...

Our Signet's CLN LSP node auto generated this name 😂😂😅

Amethyst blocks people automatically that you don't want blocked and doesnt actually block the ones you manually block 😪

Going to start calling space chains, drive chains, etc. "imaginary chains" because that's what they are... Imaginary. Not gonna happen. In your head.

Had no idea what the Dave commotion was about because I blocked that bot months ago 😅 Needless to say it is staying blocked

Local Austin based calligraphy artists are not well respected at The Commons. 😮‍💨

If nobody is going to use liquid now, nobody is ever going to use liquid. Shut it down.

I'm so excited that one day we may have our own budget to allocate to more lightning research and attack scenarios. Doing things like LNSploit, Hidden Lightning Network, LightningPrivacy.com etc. But being able to task it out and not have it be something constrained to my "spare development time" would be a dream. After years of hypothesising, writing, and experiminting with some of this, there's simply not enough researchers or experts to work on it all. There's a handful of talented individuals focused on certain areas but not enough to cover all areas and I'm sure they would all agree too witj their own lists they cant get through.

It would be so easy for someone prepared for a mass exit attack on LN to actually take advantage of all of this high fee environment stuff. Much cheaper to execute if you take utilize the fact that others are pushing up high fees for their own reasons.

Mailing lists have been so strange lately... It's getting to the point where technical emails are being responded to pretty soundly but then personal issues are slipped in there to get past mods. Nothing quite as weird as an elaborate "interesting use case for this consensus policy... btw I wish to defend myself publicly on this mailing list, here's my story"

I hope all those that have been saying for years "bring all [scams] back onto bitcoin" will realize what they've done.

I'm really not looking forward to when they use AI in forensics or criminal persecutions.

I think bitcoin/lightning companies solely trying to be a Stripe competitor is going to get their lunch eaten by Stripe. Custodial payment providers building regulatory moats charging visa level fees are the old way of thinking. Unfortunately that old way of thinking currently has a high market that can bring you $100M in idea stage fundraising.

Stripe expands access to its crypto onramp with a new hosted option

Web3 companies can now direct customers to a Stripe-hosted onramp to buy cryptocurrencies.