Why does Amethyst connect me to like 500+ relays? Anyway to cut this down to a reasonable number? I filled in what I thought was appropriate in the relays settings and also added "proxy relays" thinking that would fix. But no such luck there - still connecting to crazy amounts of relays and everything works super slow all the time now. #asknostr

This is pretty cool:

Bitcoin Wallet Tutorials

GitHub

GitHub - vake21/bitcointutorials.org: Bitcointutorials.org is a community-driven library of video tutorials designed to help people learn how to use bitcoin tools effectively and securely.

Bitcointutorials.org is a community-driven library of video tutorials designed to help people learn how to use bitcoin tools effectively and secure...

The disease is chaos and the cure is control Freedom will ultimately be traded for safety - not temporarily, permanently. This is the logical outcome of policies already in motion. The writing is on the wall and ignoring will not make it disappear. We are being maneuvered into a state of constant crisis, constant outrage, and constant need for solutions. If you've read the book 1984 then you know full well that is part of the whole plan; to keep you always with an enemy in your sights, the wars always going, and with a crisis always happening we have to remember there is no government on earth that would ever let a good crisis go to waste, certainly, not in America. Our rage, it will be cultivated. Criminality will be tolerated. Tragedy will, as disgusting as it is will be used to pull us towards not freedom, or love, or righteousness, or peace, but rather more CONTROL. The surveillance state already entrenched and continuing to build out at rapid speed (Flock AI powered ALPRs, Stargate Texas and Stargate UAE, plus however many new datacenters under construction for other public-private big tech firms), it will serve as the architecture of all of this control. Civil war will not be the beginning, but the justification for martial law, but martial law will not be the end game - no, no, but rather the mechanism by which a new political and societal order comes into play. We are watching the careful engineering of dependence, total dependence and total control. The disease is chaos and the cure is control. If history is any guide, once the cure is administered, liberty is going to be very difficult to recover.

Great write up! Hits on all key points. "We already have a Wholesale CBDC system in place." I fully agree. Also, the GENIUS Act and licensing requirements in combo with the fact that the Act specifies that it is illegal for non-bank entities to pay interest/yield to holders of their Stablecoin is key. So as per usual the government crushes the free market and picks the winners. As we all know, JP Morgan Stablecoin will incoming pretty quickly. If you're going to transact in Stablecoins then who will people want to use - issuers like JP Morgan that pay interest/yield on holdings or issuers like Tether who can't legally pay interest (unless granted a banking license)? Even with other bank entities issuing stablecoins it won't matter because they'll have Palantir aggregate all the data to one centralized location and then the illustrious government will utilize Palantir's AI to issue the social credit score.

They are setting up the infrastructure for the CBDC as we speak!

#asknostr What are some sites to use to encode cashu tokens into emojis and/or gifts? I know of memeamigo, but wasn't there some others as well?

Dying laughing at this absolute clown show - a sitting US President using the highest office in the country to pitch his own book. I'm so excited and honored and you should be too that he is making America great! His meme coin pumped some 60% yesterday on the news 😂. I believe Trump's insiders and their team can now actively start selling so we'll see if they let this ride a bit a higher or start dumping on retail. And no the other choice for US President wasn't any better - TRUTH. Please be advised this is an a-political post - simply saying any bitcoiners and statist cucks that support him and this shit show have lost their minds.

Apparently the head brainchip salesman has a new rival

BitBonds Dr. Hohns in the recent Forbes article titled, BitBonds: The $2 Trillion Idea That Could Slash The National Debt, tells us BitBonds will allow for, "we [the government] can share in the benefits of this savings technology with everyday American families. It’s a win-win-win.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/04/05/bitbonds-the-2-trillion-idea-that-could-slash-the-national-debt/ In other words, loan us the money to buy Bitcoin and we'll share some gains with you. The best part is your share of any fiat gains from Bitcoin, according to the Forbes article, will be capped at 4.5% of the total compounded return on your investment. But it gets better, after the initial 4.5% cap is reached we will share 50% of any bitcoin upside with you. We keep the other 50%. WIN -fucking- WIN! When has the US Government, yet alone any government ever wanted to "share" anything with American families. They don't share the money printer with but a select few American families up the top and amongst themeselves. But hey TRUTH is atleast this will pump our bags, right?

Re-reading this @L0la L33tz article looks very applicable to the present day. "but they could also very well use Bitcoin – particularly when used to back the U.S. dollar as part of the U.S. Treasury, but even if introduced as legal tender via Lightning-issued stablecoins to satisfy M1 supply. “No!”, you’ll yell now. “Bitcoin can’t be issued by the U.S. government!” And it can’t — but that doesn’t mean that it cannot be repurposed."

Bitcoin Magazine

Bitcoin As A CBDC

Bitcoin is the CBDC they told you not to worry about. Why obsession with ‘number-go-up’ may have Bitcoiners sleepwalking toward an authoritaria...

Does anyone else know that Scott Bessent is a Soros lackey? Yale grad, prior hedgefund manager - Bessent is famous for helping Soros to crush the British pound. Is this swamp creature on our team or was he placed there, very deliberately, by Donald Trump to help execute the same thing with the US Dollar to move us into the new system? I very much believe so. In order to reset the system Donald Trump will need physical conflict and it's looking more and more like he has chosen China for that. Question is what does the new system look like? More or less freedom for the majority of Americans? All I know for sure is best to keep on stacking sats.

"Applaud the billionaires for finally figuring out what we've all known so far. Welcome them and listen to every word they say as if they're wise because they finally recognize the value of this system. Make no mistake they have no idea what the value of this system is. They don't understand the fairness protocol behind it. All they understand is that somehow we've managed to make money and they want some of that. And here's the problem, they will abandon the principles of the fairness protocol they don't understand in order to achieve their real goal, which is simply piling on more money. So when you think that we have won by getting the approval of the bankers, of the large corporations, by getting PayPal to like us, you're missing a very very important point. These same organizations that currently approve of the system as it is today and don't understand the fairness protocol behind it, will attempt to discard the fairness protocol. They will go back to the mechanisms they know and understand. They see a plate of chips being produced and fairly distributed by two cousins and say, that's amazing what you've achieved there. Now, I have an idea of how we can take this to the next level...really scale it, really make this possible for the mainstream to use. I know how we can put this on NASDAQ so investors all around the world can access this incredible invention. I know how we can make it. Listen to this idea. How about we let the Aunt split the bowl, yea!? Right!? you get it?! You see, the Aunt can split the bowl that way we don't have to deal with the complexity of splitters and choosers and incentives and rewards and punishments. I don't really understand this fairness protocol, it seems rather complicated. Now where I come from the way we do this is we have the Aunt split the bowl. You can't really explain the fairness protocol or object to this description and in the experience of those who have been eating chips very effectively without much competition, who already have a plate full of chips, who have not been robbed by their cousin and then beaten up on top of that, this seems very logical. After all, what problem are we really solving. This is about the efficient production and distribution of chips and we can do that much better if we invite the Aunt back into the picture. Here's the thing an Argentinian understands, and a Greek like me understands. The problem is in this scenario the Aunt is our government. And every time we've trusted our government to split the bowl of chips, we realize that actually they're drunk and so what they do is they eat all the chips and then they beat up both of the children...and they be doing that everyday and the children are starving and the parent is drunk, belligerent and full of chips" --Andreas Antonopoulos