I get it when normies are too dumb and fall back into their old habits. But Luke? What is that, the longing for censorability? And isn't Discord KYC'd now? View quoted note →

So Bitcoin Core is captured by fiat and new fork would be a return to Satoshi's values or what? Bitcoin Core no more cypherpunk, all suitcoiners or what? I don't care how they will name that fork, I'm not choosing marketing labels, I'm choosing principles.

I guess we're in the 3rd phase of "first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." If we make it through this, we'll probably have a world like

Lessons from these days: If you're not using AI to audit your own projects, the bad guys definitely are, and sooner or later they'll kick your ass. The days of "I'm a super coder ninja" are over. Arrogance gets punished hard. (And forget about using Claude Code for that. They'll kick you out sooner or later for running security audits. They'll accuse you of "suspicious behavior" right away.)

Man, the Friday prayers are turning more and more into a test of patience. Some guy left his phone on and loud in a bag and it kept ringing the whole time, for 2 rak'ats straight. Nobody reacted, neither the owner nor the imam. Not even afterwards. The owner quietly grabbed his backpack and disappeared into the crowd. Jumu'ah mubarak!

The legend says his Kung Fu was so good he could break Yakihonne with just 3 letters. 🥋 View quoted note →

Interesting. Some people who are now turning out to be part of Coinkite's circles ("influencers", shills), I had already flagged earlier as "Muslim hating asshole" because of verifiably anti Muslim statements. NoorNote has a special feature for that. Now the dots are connecting and the networks are slowly becoming visible. It's always the same.

There are scripted crime stories. There are interactive crime stories with different alternative endings. And then there are those live crime stories where you go online every day to find out the next chapter.

Hey guys, have you seen any mainstream media coverage of the Coinkite scandal by now? I mean, the whole thing's got to be big enough for that, right? 1500 BTC gone (and counting), a lousy patch, and tons of indications even on social media. That's already enough material for a Netflix documentary. At the very least, a few reporters should have woken up by now. #asknostr

Conspiracy theories are wild these days. Let's see who wins.

"For the love of money People will steal from their mother For the love of money People will reduce entropy..." 🎶

My first homegrown broccoli sprouts. Sulforaphane for days.

Here's another thing that came out of this crisis: most of you aren't Nostr maximalists. You've still got one foot on X. To each their own, but this way mass adoption is never going to happen when the important Bitcoin topics aren't primarily discussed here. And no, not even if you say "but I want to pull people from over there to here." Not as long as screenshots of tweets are being shared here instead of the other way around. Don't kid yourselves about that.

It's interesting that almost everything predicted in a little book from the 80s, put out by a think tank, is now coming true on a macro political level. Just about 20 to 30 years later than originally forecast. The book was called "Agriculture Towards 2000" and I read it back in the early 80s, when it came out as an expensive glossy edition. For example, it mentioned that natural food would increasingly be replaced by artificial derivatives, in order to counter the impending "hunger catastrophe." Back then they were still pushing the narrative that there were too many people on this planet and that the planet simply couldn't produce enough food for all of us. Photos of starving Ethiopians with flies swarming around them were published everywhere to back that up. Today, that picture has long been debunked. They say a landmass the size of Australia could house and feed the entire human population. Nowadays the blame gets shifted onto "capitalism". But those of us here know it's not "capitalism" itself, it's just the interest based economy. The thing is, out there, about 80 to 90% of other people still don't agree with us. Today, this isn't about fighting hunger anymore, it's about robbing the general population. Print money -> inflation (theft) -> high prices for good food -> cheap prices for fake food -> no resistance against the theft. Money printing has stripped large portions of the population of valuable nutrients. The book also mentioned that around the turn of the millennium, millions of Africans would storm Europe. It spoke of roughly 500 million people who would be standing at the borders, and that Europe wouldn't be able to do anything about it in the face of this invasion. The reasoning back then was that Europe had plundered all the raw materials and treasures from the southern countries for centuries, and that they would now look with envy at the elevated standard of living of Europeans. A rupture of consensus would emerge, in which one half of humanity insists on its national sovereignty while the other half doesn't see why one part should have it better in life, especially after they spent centuries robbing and stealing. Right to sovereignty versus right to a better life anywhere on this planet. If the law of the strong applied back then, it applies now too, so the emerging attitude goes. Real conflict material right there. What I'm trying to say is this: the establishment has been aware of the trajectory of these developments for 40 to 50 years already. They had enough brains to know what was coming for humanity. They didn't do anything about it, none of them, and they just let it all happen. The idea that we're being governed by responsible statesmen has been an illusion for quite some time now. They think in decades, even centuries, while we just sit here and discuss and evaluate current events with zero context. To them we're as harmless as a damn mosquito to an elephant.

Today was a tough day. I replaced the sink, the whole sink unit with the basin in the kitchen. Old one out to the bulk trash, new one in. What a filthy job. But I noticed while doing it that the industry really uses all kinds of different formats for the connections. An inlet pipe is a few millimeters bigger than the old one, screw fittings are all different sizes and lengths... and they expect us IT folks to deliver standards and universal compatibility. But in the real world they haven't managed to standardize the connections for decades and still produce slop.

The people running this npub are absolutely no Bitcoiners and have no clue what Bitcoin is. View quoted note →

Thank you for your relay service all the years, @jb55 🫡 View quoted note →

That happens when you completely lose touch with reality. It starts with not knowing how much a loaf of bread costs in your country and then just keeps going unchecked. View quoted note →