I've been working hard on a new business for a year. Been working 7 days a week for months. Got my first two sales today and it's a relief. Some random thoughts before I head to bed. - I'm a good coach in my domain, enough to make a living in the domain. But without my business coach I'd be screwed. Having a set of eyes on what you're doing is so important. He's the best - honest, but very tactful with is feedback, which makes it easy to take. I get credit for taking almost all of it because he's the coach and I'm coachable. We're now friends outside of the working relationship and that's neat too. - The 4% Stripe is taking pisses me off. I'm used to having to pay just over 2.6% in transaction fees, but for this, it's 4%. - I've riden my bike - very slow - most days this month. Consistency in that area has been so great to sustain the effort. - I work in Codex and Claude Code every day. And there still is so much to learn with what they do well and what they do poorly, and how you have to be strategic about how you use them in tandem. - Codex browser control and computer control is still vodoo. Excited to listen to the @The Bitcoin Way podcast with Matt Hill in the coming days. Might need to drive to get the dog some special bones to celebrate and listen on the way. I have no idea what the bitcoin prices have been the past week, which is a good thing for me.

Gm 😀 ☕ 👊 I love getting Seth Godin's emails each morning. This is a good prompt for me to have a hard-ish conversation after this weekend. "It’s difficult to ride a bicycle in the pitch darkness. We need to see where we’re going to avoid obstacles. And it’s hard to maintain our balance. When we choose to avoid the conversations that make us uncomfortable, we’re pedaling in the dark. Talk about it. Turn on the lights." Have a great day!

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Twitter/X - "Reposts are not endorsements" is in a lot of people's bios. Okay, fair, but I'm not sure it needs to be said. I find it odd. Nostr - Zaps. That's it. Reposts are great and really important, but you can just sap things. We're so trained on the outside to like or comment or repost, but here you can just zap. I'm not sure what my point is, other than I have 50k followers across platforms "on the outside" and the longer I'm here the sillier that system feels. Though, to the be fair, subscribers don't matter nearly as much as they did when I got most of those subs. Matching your content with what the person is interested in - "Interest media" not "social media" - is the name of the game, which I'm grateful for. I still need to post to help the business, and while it's a hamster wheel, I'm grateful to have work to do. #nostr #v4v #sats

AI is wild. Since I woke up this morning... - Codex and Claude code working on a big project - which requires both. - I take my younger kid to sports practice and needed to spend a couple of hours at the coffee shop. Talked to Codex via the phone and it continued to work on the task I started at home, connected to my desktop computer at home. It eventually hit a road block, but only after it did a solid 90 min of work. - I opened up Perplexity Computer at the coffee shop and had it search YT videos of band work recommended by @Tauri | Bitcoin (XBT) after I posted about working out being hard at 50. Very nice of him and others to offer advice. I put in my age and injury history and what I do and don't like to do from the list that @Bfgreen shared. I sent it the link to a general strength and mobility routine I like. It searched these things in parallel and worked fast, knowing that it only needed Anthropic Sonnet 4.6 to do this work, and not Opus 4.8, which is what it was using to do the main design. Then I said I needed creatine, per nprofile1qqsw0m2xx0mcl620v4a0q8hcq8328y6jwqy6dltcjyq0wdc2q2935zqwy6hfq recommendatio. It liked the Thorne brand a bit more than Momentous, so I went that route. Then I had it make a spect for an app that will create a strength and mobility plan for me to do after I ride my bike - with fonts I like - so I could hand off to Codex when I got home. It'll count macros and I can simply take photos of my food or my watch data when I get off the bike (I don't care a lot about the watch data, but I might in 60-90 days). - Got home and walked the dog - we just meander because he gets to sniff at any and all spots - and talked to Codex about a fun little side project. It created a folder on my desktop for this project, and for me it's pure voodoo to see that folder on my desktop when I get back home. - I had Perplexity Computer research inexpensive bookkeeping solutions. Now back to the desk with Codex and Claude Code working. I need to set up the SSH like this article outlines to make all of this more efficient:

Little Might

How to Set Up Multiple Macs for Always-On AI Agents · Little Might

A practical multi-Mac setup for AI agents: Tailscale, SSH aliases, mirrored folders, launchd, phone-reachable sessions, and the Tailscale tricks I ...

Or maybe I can do that with @Start9 StartTunnel - https://docs.start9.com/start-tunnel/1.0.x/ Bottom line is it's all moving so fast, and it's a lot of fun.

Working out in your 50s is humbling. AND, I’m grateful to have a functioning body that can put in a bit of work. But the tricky thing is I can’t train very hard if I want to be able to train the next day. My metric for success is simple: if my face is sweating it counts. Gone are the days - for now - where I can enjoy trail runs like @Allen in the Rocky Mountains ⛰️ But the hope is to be back on the mtn bike for some easy rides by the fall. Drip by drip. #pow #bikestr

GM 😀 ☕ 👊 Happy Father's Day to all the fathers. Mine kids are really growing up. One is on a foreign language immersion trip in another country, and the other got up at 6:15 a.m. to be at their job at the farmers market, loading bins of produce off a truck. I'm really grateful for who they are, and I need to do a better job the rest of this summer taking them on trips, cooking for them, and spending time with them. I heard a wise woman tell me that parents who question if they're doing a good enough job are the ones who really are doing a good job. I question my parenting often. I'm sure that's not going to go over well here, because I feel like a lot of people are very certain about things in on Nostr - parenting being just of of them. If the primary reason I'm stacking is for my kids and their kids, it is interesting how there's always so much I can be doing better as a father. Regardless, I hope everybody has a great day.

I made something that I think will help me when I’m trying to get merchants to accept Bitcoin on their Square Terminal. I struck out pretty hard at my local coffee shop yesterday. Total non-starter. I’ll write about that separately. But it made me realize something: I didn’t have a simple way to show the owner what my weekly coffee habit would save them in card fees. And then it would be nice - if they're curious - to have them just scan a QR code and read a quick overview of why they can easily accept it, rather than read some flyer...which I tried in the fall. So I built a simple app that does this. The default is $10 purchase for 2 times a week. If somebody spends $10 twice a week at a Square merchant, that is $50 a year on credit card fees the merchant saves. If somebody buys a $5 coffee every day, the $0.15 Square charges the coffee shop adds up...to the tune of $100 for the year. The tool is simple - you just put in the sale amount, pick one purchase or repeat visits, and it shows: - Credit card fee - Bitcoin fee in 2026 - Bitcoin fee in 2027+ - What a regular customer adds up to over time At this point we hope we've gotten their attention, and if so, you click the QR code toggle. The merchant scans it and gets a short page explaining the fees they save, common questions, and links to Square’s resources for turning Bitcoin Payments on. There is a link to Square's onboarding video. I'm not sure it's been updated, and it's not as quick process, unless one of use is helping them, but again, I might have found an older video. The merchant will want to know if this gets automatically converted to USD. The docs I found say merchants can receive Bitcoin Payments as USD or BTC, yet recent Square release notes say USD is the default for new sellers, but the video made it look like they had to choose. It'd be great if we could get clarity on that. The bottom line is for people here care about merchant adoption, and I think this is useful...and not ai slop, but you be the judge.

Square Bitcoin Savings Calculator

Show a Square merchant what they save when they turn on Bitcoin payments.

@npub1cash...dg5l @npub1ds3h...hzcn #merchantadoption #bitcoin

I’m working on a dad-to-dad BIP110 guide for normal node runners because I need to teach myself how to do this. I have @Start9 running the latest @Bitcoin Knots and I want to support BIP110, but I want the wording to be correct. Is this accurate? - My node can support/enforce BIP110. - Miners are the ones who actually signal BIP110 in blocks. - If I add DATUM and point hashpower at it, then I can say I’m mining/signaling BIP110 and more importantly, move the needle a bit. What am I missing? And sorry if all of this is obvious. Thanks in advance for your help. #asknostr #DATUM #BIP110 @OCEAN @Unhosted Marcellus @Tauri | Bitcoin (XBT) @nomadshiba | XBT @ForrestHODL @Matthew Kratter

Braiins → DATUM → OCEAN "Set up the node first. Then point Braiins at it. Build blocks on OCEAN." If you're curious about renting hash, check out this guide. Unless I'm missing it the creator is unknown, but a huge thanks from this pleb to them for putting it together.

Rent Some Hash

Rent Some Hash: rent hashpower to your DATUM node

Set up a DATUM node, then choose PickHash with MiningRigRentals or Braiins to aim rented hashpower at your own block templates on OCEAN.

#hash #mining #DATUM @OCEAN @Start9 @Umbrel ☂️

I built a free tool for people running bitcoin events to get the word out and save time - primarily for posting on Twitter/X. The idea is that you already put the time in to get your event on Luma, Meetup, or Satlantis. Paste that event link into the tool and it creates posts for Twitter as well as Nostr. Once it kicks out the drafts, you can edit the text however you like. Scroll down a little to add things like the speaker's Twitter handle, their npub, and whatever hashtags you want for the event. It's pretty straightforward. You can fiddle with it a bit, but it works, and it works for all three event types. I left Eventbrite out - that one's trickier and I decided not to go down that rabbit hole. Luma, Meetup, and Satlantis seem to cover most bitcoin events, whether it's a BitDevs or anything else.

Event Megaphone — Twitter/X + Nostr post generator

A free, self-contained tool to turn event pages into Twitter/X + Nostr post campaigns.

GitHub

GitHub - orangedaddocs/event-megaphone

Contribute to orangedaddocs/event-megaphone development by creating an account on GitHub.

GM 😀☕️🙏🏻 Working while the kiddo is at sports practice. I love this coffee shop. Technically I’m not cool enough for this place, but I like crashing the party. Have a good day.

Has anyone done the rented hash with Braiins that @Matt Corallo and @Matthew Kratter have talked about? At the risk of sounding dumb, how do you support bip-110 when you do this?

Wispr Flow is amazing. The fact that I can dictate emails that are thorough and thoughtful, but also get through a lot of customer emails, is such a gift. I know there are some free one that are likely good too.

Wispr Flow | Voice to Text Dictation & AI Notetaker

Flow makes writing quick and clear with seamless voice dictation. It is the fastest, smartest way to type with your voice.

#ai

Two wishes... I wish bitcoin core had lots of parents working on the project. I wish more women were in bitcoin and on Nostr. It's hard to argue that bitcoin wouldn't benefit from both.