Over the past thirty years it has become consistently safer to leave the front door unlocked, and unsafer to answer your phone. Don’t let your folks fall for it! Teach them about the dangers of having a phone number!
Leo
leo@lightning.engineering
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自由閪。Defund the system! Passionate about privacy, encryption and ⚡️bitcoin. Forbidden lands, forgotten empires.
Top jobs 2028:
- Captcha solver
- Wi-Fi password inputter
- Vending machine stocker
- Government-mandated LLM supervisor (in absence)
What if instead of an npub you owned an utxo? Great spam protection and you can rotate keys by spending the utxo.
Coming soon. Sats only
Ancient sci-fi thrillers in which protagonists talk to their ship as if it were part of the crew feel a lot more realistic now. But still as stupid
I do fear that we are endlessly building out the Bitcoin ecosystem without a clear direction or idea for what problems we are solving. Many of us are highly motivated and continue to build, educate and evangelize, but few of us really use Bitcoin, or are driven by a desire to use it. We are building for ‘others,’ be it the developing world, the marginalized or agents. But do we understand what they need or want?
I really like Bitcoin’s culture of frugality, but it makes it very hard to establish a Bitcoin economy.
Great article about Vancouver DCTRL, which will be closing its doors at the end of March. I very much hope we can find a new location quickly. Come by one last time!
Bitcoin Magazine
DCTRL Vancouver: Iconic Bitcoin Hackerspace Closes Downtown Location After 12 Years Due To Zoning Changes
After over a decade as a volunteer-run hackerspace sustaining Bitcoin innovation through events, the Bepsi machine, and community donations, DCTRL ...
Watching doctors in ‘The Pitt’ hand out fentanyl and morphine like candy to otherwise generally healthy children and adults is definitely quite a black-pilling experience. In Europe they wouldn’t give morphine to my 99 year old grandmother because she could become addicted. No wonder North American cities look the way they do!
Weekend project complete: A Pi4 running a full archival node, open to incoming connections over Tor, showing node, block and mempool statistics on an e-ink display. It refreshes whenever a new block has been found.
As long as Google still makes me identify traffic signs and pedestrian crossings as proof of my humanity, I will refuse to acknowledge neither Al nor self-driving cars as having a real impact on our society.
I have to admit, the highly successful Lightning payments integration to Square terminals has been somewhat discouraging for somebody aiming to further Lightning payments across the Northern border.
Very tempting. These would be very easy to retrofit with Lightning payments, and they work (but are a pain to maintain)
Other than Al, is there any other industry that is as negative about its own impact on humanity? Even the people building weapons of mass destruction generally consider themselves saviors of civilization.
How are v4v podcasts doing? What’s your go-to Nostr podcast app? Or should podcasts not be on Nostr?
So far, the main reasons the moon is interesting for space travel are:
- Lots of grade A historic sites
- Lots of junk for a moon museum
- Cool sea AND mountain view