i just paid 8 cents for asking fable to "commit and push". lesson learned.

there was a period from 2008-2010 where you could accurately judge someone's degree of metacognition based on how they felt about lil b. you either got what he was doing: embracing the speed and absurdity of memetic culture by breaking the 4th wall of rap or you didn't see it.

cynicism and pessimism are traps that some people never escape.

sometimes at bitcoin conferences i catch myself wondering how many ppl here would significantly lose something if this project fails. how many of you will will lose your entire retirement? a huge chunk of your net worth? how many of you actually live this? i know a few.

working on a flow for paying a cashu request that only accepts specific mints. in this example the user selects one of the payee's specified mints and it processes the payment in one sweep. inb4: why not just use ln? this paticular flow assumes a cashu request was scanned. if it was a bolt11 invoice or bip321 it would default to a ln payment and this would be very simple. i'm smoothing the animations next. they're very jarring and unpolished right now.

receipts used to be for you.

it's kinda funny that cash is anonymous by accident and now we have to make digital cash anonymous on purpose. for some people this is controversial. so we'll do it controversially.

gm. you don't owe a database your personal info just because you bought a coffee.

been working on a unified send flow for cashu me. one field. paste a bolt11, bolt12, ln address, cashu request etc... or scan someone's key to lock ecash to them via p2pk. you can review your own keys in settings now.

finding myself getting comfortable with my current vibe coding / ai design flow. not a great sign for growth. never get comfortable with your tools. want to put my current setup to the side and try new stuff. tools i find myself constantly reaching for: claude cli impeccable plugin grill me skill mobbin mcp i usually cycle through some combination of these to build a design. what are you using?

when a cashu mint supports onchain + bolt11 + bolt12 you end up with four ways to receive. here's a wip on how i'm thinking of laying them out in cashu me. no jargon. only descriptions telling you when to use it. the two bolt12 offers became "reusable" and "flexible".

ot icloud backup + recovery working on the next cashu me swift build. restoring via icloud is pleasant experience. usual caveat emptor on cloud backups but damn it feels good.

some notes and quotes i wrote down during trevor paglen's berlin talk tonight. "palantir is not so much a military technology company, it's a vision technology." "slop is the media that the attention economy forces people to create." "do you subscribe to the sublime idea of things that are beyond yourself?" "this is where it turns to magic. instagram. telepathy. some of it feels supernatural." [context: talking about getting a targeted ad right after having a conversation about that exact thing.] topics to follow up: - vilém flusser on technical images - the politics of llm training data - cia & russian psyop manuals buy his book:

Verso

How to See Like a Machine

Today our world is under the watchful and tireless eye of computer vision, with cam­eras and monitors tracing our every move. Furthermore, generat...

everything i love about cyberpunk is found in neuromancer and ghost in the shell.

the gov just restricted fable 5 under export control law. we've been here before. in the 90s strong encryption was classified as a munition and placed under arms export controls. the cypherpunks fought and won. read the cypherpunk library.

The Cypherpunk Library

The Cypherpunk Library

A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep.

weekend project: cypherpunkbooks.com one shelf for books, manifestos, essays, etc... built it for myself to keep everything I want to read and everything i love in one place.

i dislike how taboo discussions around money are in leftist activist circles. i see a lot of hand waving. 'money won't be needed in a post capitalist world.' 'money is the root of evil.' 'money is exploitation.' then the conversation ends. i wish it didn't go like this. money is not inherently evil. it's just a technology. just like language. a technology for transporting value across space and time. that's it. it doesn't have to be exploitative. the current monetary system is deeply corrupt. imo it's the source of a lot of the world's problems, but the answer isn't to dismiss it. we should strive to build a better one. if the current implementation is broken fork and build your own.

i'm being one shotted by yanis varoufakis' technofeudalism. i can feel the dunning kruger setting in.

really enjoyed this from matt balez. a few things stuck: i learned subcent api fees via usdc on base is easy. a few weeks ago in vegas i highlighted this a unique value prop for bitcoin agentic payments. i was wrong. still true that stablecoins are inherently censorable, and freezable at any time. they don't optimize for human freedom. stablecoin privacy is very spooky. the fact that you can feed an agent's etherscan history to chatgpt and id the merchant should scare everyone. "open source AI deserves open source money" is a banger. how do we meme this into existence? watching steinberger go anti "crypto" was rough. surprised usdt on lightning wasn't covered. i know usdc has the regulatory momentum rn but @speedwallet 's wallet's usdt/lightning ux is quite good. they address the volatility and short term usd obligation point all on the ln network. we can have a convo about the tradeoffs re censorship resistance, but i think bitcoin builders can learn a lot from speed.

The Best Money For Agents

Spiral PM Mat Balez weighs the relative merits of stablecoins vs bitcoin for agentic payments and nudges us towards the more neutral option.

spoke at vegas a few weeks ago on lightning and ecash. @Shinobi moderated, @EVAN KALOUDIS and Alex held it down on @ZEUS and @Fedi . fun one. thanks for having me.