Have you ever met a bitcoiner who thinks every bitcoin user needs to hold their sats on a cold wallet and maintain their private key? As the technology stands today this is not only unrealistic, it's mathematically impossible. Being a utopian purist does not help this. There are scaling solutions, but they all require trade-offs. Some of the tech is clunky, but we are making progress with federations, lightning, and ecash. If you care about bitcoin adoption the process is incremental, not zero to one hundred. Meet people where they are at and show them one step at a time 🤙

Today someone showed me a feature on snapchat that allows you to search for public posts geographically. It's interesting because you're able to zoom in on places like Iran, Gaza Strip and see what life is like there. This can be a good check on the usual propaganda outlets. For example, Iran is far more developed than many in the west realize and I didn't see any posts about the ongoing conflict. The conditions in Gaza were unsurprisingly terrible, but there are some beautiful families doing their best. I thought to myself about what they might be able to do with bitcoin if I sent them some. I also wondered if there was some way to teach them about nostr. I'm going to reach out to one of these families and see where it goes. We don't speak the same language, but that doesn't matter anymore. If the tech we are building is useful at all, maybe it will be useful to people who are in bad situations, but still have internet access. I hope you have a blessed Sunday 🙏

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Very interesting case. Especially the age of the hacker and how they caught him

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FBI arrests man accused of using Steam games to drain victims’ crypto wallets

Prosecutors accused 21-year-old student Zyaire Wilkins of publishing on Steam several fake video games that contained malware, infecting thousands ...

My girlfriend is under the weather and asked for sausage and pancakes so I made her a pancake out of sausage

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If you believe this, please sell all your bitcoin. View quoted note →

GM this is both sad and hilarious. Parody level real world event. View quoted note →

Big time bubble vibes. It seems to me that the recent LLM craze will plateau in its advancements, just like every other technology that does not rely on network effects. Considering smartphones for example, there was a time when each iteration was significant and the benefits of paying for the most recent phone far outweighed the costs. Phone tech seems to have plateaued about ten years ago. The main thing keeping it alive now is planned obsolescence. Eventually the difference between frontier LLMs and older models will become negligable. Then gradually, the difference between enterprise and open source will do the same. This could be accelerated dramatically by another deepseek drop, but it will happen eventually even without one. Many business applications of "AI" will continue to require bleeding edge models to compete, but for most applications the bottleneck will return to human capital capable of maximizing the clever utilization of the tech, rather than the tech itself. This can be seen across every technological advancement for hundreds of years. I'm not sure how long this process will take, but one day the ROI on training new LLMs will run out and the bubble will pop. Many busy-work jobs will be decimated in the process. View quoted note →

My explanation to a friend asking me if all applications work on Graphene: No. Anything which requires google play services might not work. However, most services that require it can also be used on the inernet instead (like banking services for example) As far as I am concerned, any app that doesn't work on graphene is not optimized for my usage. So I find alternative services (that app loses me as a customer) The reality of our current state of affairs in technology is that the tech works for the corporations, not the consumers. It spies on us and can be controlled to block us from using it in ways which benefit us. For this reason I do my best to only use open source software like linux, graphene, ect. This ensures that if the government, corporations, or a combination of the two decide they want to do something I don't like, they cannot do that remotely. They have to do it physically, which makes it much more costly for them. Especially here in the US where many citizens are armed to defend themselves.

GN

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The metaphors people use to explain things demonstrate the quality their critical thinking