Made up death of worlds oldest tortoise (194 years!) to scam people for crypto. Learnings: 194 years! And people will scam others with all kinds of stories and it will get worse with AI.

the Guardian

World’s oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam

Fake X account posing as his vet sparked global false reports of Jonathan’s death while soliciting crypto donations

Frigate is still experimental. But it proves for the first time that silent payments wallets are practical for widespread adoption. This is not only a long overdue upgrade for Bitcoin wallets, but a significant step forward for privacy. Thank you @craigraw View quoted note →

Today’s headline in #Zimbabwe. „Your USD is very safe“. Whenever the central bank says your money is safe, trust that it’s the opposite. I haven’t seen any ZIG banknotes around, it’s only being used digitally (card payment or EcoCash). I am using USD cash only and everyone’s trust is on the USD. Now the RBZ wants to push ZIG banknotes upon people they will issue new banknotes on Apr 7. I will keep you posted!

Ronnie Mdawida, founder of @Afribit Kibera Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya was our guest in the last Crack the Orange community call. Watch this interesting talk, where he gives tips on how to start and run a circular economy successfully.

Crack the Orange

Ronnie Mdawida, Founder Afribit Kibera - Community Call | Crack the Orange

Ronnie Mdawida is the founder of Afribit Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, one of the most exciting Bitcoin circular economy projects in Africa. Based in K...

I use different LLM tools for different purposes. For transparency about my work and writings I added this information on my website:

My AI usage

How I am using AI tools.

Let's welcome Angela from Maputo co-host of BitDevs #Mozambique to Nostr and send some sats to her. View quoted note →

@Alby is there a LNURL for a sub-wallet LN address, that I can use to receive sats? Can’t find it, want to share it.

Important fight in the USA for a de minimis tax exemption for Bitcoin. US Regulations are most of the times implemented in the rest of the world too. View quoted note →

Finally! I was running around nudging developers for years for that functionality. Thanks @ZEUS View quoted note →

Learning to write AI skills feels to me a lot like learning Latin, which gave me the basics for so many other languages. Precise definitions, better results, structured thinking, and a foundation for so many other things.

Mega corporations are evil. Meta lobbied for years and spent 2 billion USD to push age verification for Apple and Google, but not Meta!

Yahoo News

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech

Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveill...

This is really bad. View quoted note →

Nostr client devs: I posted several times in the last 30 min here on Nostr. And nothing was relayed. I guess bc of my erratic internet connection. Maybe add client memory that stores all recent posts locally so that I could find them and post again?

I would prefer to use @PayPerQ but they don’t offer Cowork. View quoted note →