I can wholeheartedly recommend purchasing from the friends here on nostr. The art and products I purchased here were genuine, inspiring, and of very high quality. Plus, it feels great to be furthering a global circular economy, even if only by a tiny bit. Thank you @Lina Seiche, @npub140lj...e9pc, @M A D E X, @🟠 isolabellart, @Mapletrade, @Gabi, @StackSats.IO, @Bitcoin Infinity Media, @Saifedean Ammous, @Rune Østgård, and the artists I forgot to mention 🫂. View quoted note →

Finding a block is difficult, but as luck has it, some miners overshoot the requirements by 100x or more (898243). It is a bit like a hole-in-one without a reward.

I used to be a passionate coder. These days, I dedicate my time on building infrastructure to reliably run the brilliant code you guys write 🫡

What is your programming style: (type a) throwing the baby into the pool's deep end, or (type b) studying error handling and testing for weeks before writing the first line of production code?

nostr.band says I zapped 14M sats total. My goal is to make Bitcoin succeed and see myself as custodian rather than owner of some of the sats stacked in 2014ff. did I miss cool and important "sat routes" to success?

GM - I completed the new backup project using the proxmox backup server software running on a supermicro hardware (this plus Bitcoin = peace of mind 🧘‍♂️)

Today, I analyzed the Ethereum blockchain and found that about half of all bits are zero. This just cannot be sound money.

I could use some help. Every time I try to sign into a new app using nos2x-fox, I get 12 pages of signing requests from yakihonne.com. What is happening, and how can I get rid of it?

My feed here on Nostr is the most intellectually honest stream of info apart from DMs.

GM 🍀 friends - my coffeemaker takes about 20 minutes to get ready - enough to fold stacking sats into the morning routine

This is too good not to get up at night to buy corn. The outlook for #Bitcoin is as strong as last month, and the entry price has improved as quite a few people need liquidity.

Bitcoin is technically and ethically beautiful because it peacefully resists corruption. However, we need to acknowledge that an essential force driving its adoption and success is the appalling level of corruption and self-serving behavior displayed by people in positions of power in the past decades. The current zeitgeist suggests that large corporations and institutions are corrupt in principle, and Milei, Musk, or Trump's efforts to dismantle them are applauded (also by me). Still, I believe that fully decentralized micro organizations cannot solve all problems, and there is value in mounting and funding larger entities. We "just" need to find a way to prevent the destructive force of power to corrupt management.

I asked ChatGPT to estimate the likelihood of the following opcodes being merged and deployed in the next five years: OP_CTV, 50-70%, simple, well-reviewed, useful for scaling. OP_CAT, 30-50%, more general-purpose, but not urgent. OP_VAULT, 30-50%, niche use case, but useful for security. OP_CSFS, 10-30%, powerful but complex and controversial. Are these reasonable?

Poisson distribution: 40 minutes without a block and now four blocks in two minutes

🎾 - "Fifteen years of serve training in less than two minutes - this guy is pretty cool ( ... and it works (of course, only after having completed the fifteen years of serve training 😇) #tennis

I am sympathetic to DOGE's efforts, not because I like disruption and drama but because I like transparency, rational thinking, and good decision-making. Some DOGE critiques ( even seem to reinforce its necessity. But I also support EFF and its efforts, and now EFF clashes with DOGE (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/eff-sues-doge-and-office-personnel-management-halt-ransacking-federal-data). Of course, one should never have collected these giant data pools in the first place. What do you think about this?

Much work has gone into planning and evaluating an upgrade to my computing infrastructure, and purchasing these is also quite costly. Mind you, I only have a few people using any of my services (lnbits instance, cashu mint). This initiative, which is fueled mainly by idealism, aims to contribute to the world I want to see, which includes decentralized, permissionless, and private payments. The work is much fun, and I get a sense of giving back to the community, the people who built all the cool tools I am deploying, and Satoshi.

GM 🌥️ This week, a friend asked me why we are confident there will never be more than 21 million Bitcoins. In response, I wrote this (in German):

Warum gibt es nur 21 Millionen Bitcoin? – Bitcoin Weesen

greetings from an early February stroll in nature

In our circles here on Nostr, saying that you will be rich by staying humble and stacking sats is not exactly breaking news. You know it works (and you'll be wealthy in 10 years) or at least you believe it works because you know people who you trust believe in it. If I go out of Nostr to the people who surround me, I see a behaviour that seems to say "it's not for me". People find comfort in having missed the boat. Because bonding it comes with the responsibilities for learning about and buying Bitcoin. My message to these people: be honest with yourself. Admit that you don't want to be weathly, after all (not judging). Or else get going; most of Nostr is here to help.