' Build or Perish ' Should be a good Bitcoin t-shirt

Nostr has a lot of people making noise and doing marketing, but when you actually are grassroots, on your own, building for the community, you're getting close to zero reach/reaction. That's a pity. But ok. You can't complain either ... that's bad as well. Maybe I'd start hiring influencer women to make it all look nice or something.... seems the be the only way to get attention these days. A few years ago you were admired for trying to be useful. In 2025 you need to sell paper bitcoin, look good on camera or run some fake organisation to get tickets for corporate events. Let's build more. Let's overrule the "10 voices" garbage in bitcoin because I'm tired of it all. Build or perish.

I believe my zero-knowledge time-differentiated, open-source encryption can help the #BitChat project. @jack It's also standalone, no middlemen and can handle text, small files and large files (10MB to 10 GB) seamlessly. You can find it at timeseed.io and the source is on github. It can be adapted easily to serve as a a client-side encryptor, although it's specifically made to run online or offline standalone. I'm here to help or give explanation. #bitchat #timessed #encryption

'Wachten op een vonk...' Over de #meerwaardebelasting , waar ons geld naartoe gaat en de monsterlijke ideologische groepen vd EU-junta.

Wachten op een vonk...

over meerwaardebelasting en digitale euro's

I wrote 2 user-stories , to accompany the timeseed.io use-cases They're one very simple file-exchange over whatsapp, and one scenario where a dissident in a totalitarian regime will try to communicate with a journalist.

TimeSeed: Secure Document Sharing Over WhatsApp

TimeSeed: A User Story

Encryption with high flexibility, low learning curve, and ease of use? Free, without a server, without central services and standalone, secure and with high entropy? All synched so you don't have to share new passwords all the time? It's now possible with

TimeSeed.io

If you value my work, please keep me going and /donate.... If innovation from grassroots persons is the way forward, then support it.

Did you know there's a simple "since block" clock? It's the little brother of the "Say le Clock" . Since clock: displays the time since last block and becomes more red and vibing in display when the time goes over 10 minutes.

Time since last block ...

Say-le-clock : A clock that keeps track of the new bitcoin blocks found, displays the price in € and $ but the main feature is an audio alert when a block is found, along with a price move audio indicator ever 5 minutes. Every 3rd block, there's a bitcoiner bringing an audio quote. (this is super handig to "hear" what's going on at the bitcoin level while not staring at a screen). You can also set soothing background music while doing so. I play it all day

Say-Le-clock | Bitcoin Live Counter with Sound

How timeseed.io works? Decentralized, local/online, offline/online, without central server, without synching "authority" and secured by AES (Galois/Counter mode). Above all: you don't need a private/public key pair anymore. This is like PGP, but with time itself as a decentralized encryption timer.

TimeSeed.io

(I worked in VPN/IPsec for years, and build this FREE tool for the community). This is art for me. if you like to support my work ...

Support TimeSeed.io / AVB

TimeSeed.io is the way to delf-encrypt and sync passwords without any central authority. I made a quick start guide.

TimeSeed Quick Start Guide

#encrypt

Seemingly simple tool, randomly picks BIP39 word and self-tests its own entropy quality, rejects anything that is medium or lower quality.

BIP-39 Word Raffle

73bdf04d2d7005a2c648a4ccff85877b4a503d3e4bdb7290e4e12a33d9239befe9de0b918f1747df73ae171491ff317bebc7a702016def9b59bead81b2dc44475c9dbff497a7368ac2dde34a4e5407b1f64dfaefc9b913f2219fb87712be585262b47c61d264ae3b70223b2afe4d6bf1e96b4bdacb73fd2baa2eb64403abf68ab8eb5b7a2140ab7886d15586f0e602797825729da390ae66f7a93feedad7ba0cac324bdecc005f93ee28d2ee7e151c9b19f46d0dd1f219b1dd12

For a crowd obsessed with a cryptocurrency, shockingly few understand èncryption.

Encrypting anything is difficult for most average users. But even for more advanced users it's sometimes a challenge between complexity and security. Moet of them use private and public keys. I solved all of that with the multi level approach on timeseed.io One seed, no central sever, and secure cyphers on an easy to use interface. Can work offline and standalone.

Nostr has not one good client. What a sad state of affairs if devs can't even see that you need profile plus a USERname that just works as wallet and username at the same time. NiP05 providers 4/5 fail miserable at onboarding.

Hey#amethyst why is there no 'zaps' or 'wallet' option in your menu? That's like the first thing normal users will look foe after customizing their profile Hi to configure zap sending?

Engagement on nostr for me (with about 330 followers) is close to 1 to 5 people. It's incredible high-effort and low return (return as : real signal and engagement). Still trying, but wondering if others feel the same nose-dive in interactions last could or weeks?

Probably the inventor of the wheel, was laughed at, because something round was too much work in order to having to roll it around yourself. Technical NIH syndrome is at all time high.

First RELEASE : v1.13 is LIVE now. You have your TimeSeed? Then you can communicate securely. Derive secure passwords from a single seed with "TimeSeed.io". An Open-source, standalone, no middlemen, no tracking, no central server, no pub/private key — just pure privacy & control. Development is pure Value4Value (if you want this to expand and continue, please contribute, we're grassroots).Read the Quick start or How it works guide to get your (small) learning curve going. Visit it though

TimeSeed.io

#TimeSeed #Privacy #Encryption

So... bitcoin Knots : when you reset your custom filters, it asks you to reboot. Then there's some pop-up, and when you're not careful, and click next (like most of us do) you'll revert to "pruning" mode. F'ing up your whole block database and index in the process. When you "downgraded" from Bitcoin Core: both setups are from that moment f'd up. So... I uninstalled both and be done with it. I'm no longer a node runner, because after 16 years, they didn't learn how to make a node that just has a good interface, and is just good in being a node, instead of a political ego trip game. The actual command line commands also mostly don't work and the 'help' (even if you follow it literally) is no help at all... I'm so done with that ****. I'll check back in 2 years or so... see if anyone came up with something that actually works fine and has no stupid "filter" wars going on.

So, I went over the Bitcoin Knots default settings in their spam-filtering. And I noticed the settings for minimal transaction fees. I don't think this is very positive to just enable as-is. But that's just my opinion. Maybe someone should go over all these settings one-by-one and see how this impacts some legit functions. (yes, it prevents spam, but let's look at what we're doing here). (also it sets it by default to pruning... but that's a separate issue... ) example: bytespersigop=20 (Equivalent bytes per sigop in transactions for relay and mining) bytespersigopstrict=20 (Minimum bytes per sigop in transactions we relay and mine) Increased Costs for Sigop-Heavy Small Transactions: Small transactions with many sigops (e.g., complex multisig or script-heavy transactions) will have their effective size inflated by the 20 vbytes per sigop rule. For example, a transaction with 5 sigops is treated as having an additional 100 vbytes (5 × 20), significantly increasing its fee requirement to achieve a competitive fee rate. This makes such transactions more expensive to confirm, potentially discouraging their use unless the sender is willing to pay higher fees.