Imagine that your online banking application was written by third parties with no relationship with your bank; how would you scrutinize it? That’s precisely how you should treat your bitcoin wallets. Any application that handles or (worse) generates key material should be scrutinized to the highest degree possible.

Coutts Bank: We’re closing Nigel Farage’s bank account because he’s a “disingenuous grifter” with “xenophobic, chauvinistic and racist views” World Bank: Hold my beer.

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BREAKING: World Bank says there will be no new financing to Uganda due to its adoption of the Anti-Homosexuality Act

I just realized that DMs on #nostr are not as private as some people think they are. When you send a DM to someone on nostr, you signal to the entire flock and anyone (with the right tooling) can see who you’re communicating with and the frequency with which you communicate with that account.

How does one use #nostr without #zaps? 😔

Spent the afternoon grokking Stable Diffusion. Here’s one of my first AI generated images.

The original P2P trading platform

#bitcoin-otc

Too big to fail

Stray Kids - CASE 143 - Japanese ver. - / THE FIRST TAKE My wife is the K-pop aficionado but I’ve had this song on repeat for a while now. My first introduction to Stray Kids was with MANIAC.

I’ve been musing over the best strategy for uploading media to #nostr. Most people can already host a relay but I doubt they’ll want to host their own media, not to mention doing it for others. Services like nostr.build allow you to upload and will serve your media but I get nervous about it going away one day and losing access to all my uploaded media. This is where a protocol like #ipfs might be useful. Without doing much in the sense of a media server, you can run the ipfs daemon and pin files you intend to share and use the url of a public ipfs gateway to serve your files. I’m going to experiment with hosting future media content on ipfs and see how it goes.

BlueWallet is sunsetting their custodial Lightning service: remove funds ASAP This would always be the end result of every custodial-lightning service.

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Sunsetting Lndhub.io

Today, we are announcing that the Lightning node, Lndhub.io, where BlueWallet provides Lightning wallets to its users, is sunsetting. While you can...

This sinister experiment that the Central Bank of Nigeria is conducting with Nigerians proves one thing: Nigeria will never be cashless.

#nostr may not be censorship-resistant but it is censorship-agnostic.

Did #[0] silently deploy NIP-57 support or do I have to sacrifice my firstborn in order to join the whitelist?

Do you recognize that orange glow you feel inside of you when you zap a post? 🧡💜

Is there a standard (or NIP) for media hosting services? I imagine that in the not so distant future, you can upload media directly from a Nostr client to your preferred media hosting service.

WTF is this? And it’s enabled by default?

It’s mind-boggling to see some Bitcoiners calling for censorship of #Bitcoin transactions just because they contain #inscriptions. Inscriptions are not the attack on Bitcoin; you are!

Zapping could become so ubiquitous that some might even earn a decent living with it! ⚡️

It would be nice to have some kind of indicator to let you know when you’ve already zapped a note. It certainly shouldn’t prevent additional zapping of the same note.