seeing #p2pool 's hashrate soaring by ~30% over night makes me incredibly bullish. at least i'm doing my part 🫡

this btw tells you everything you need to know about these cult members View quoted note →

imagine bitcoinaz on nostr crying like a baby for days because they are afraid of monero. wait...

#amethyst became really annoying with this crap.

@peachbitcoin v 0.69.0 (393). why do i still see this message?

what's the magic spell to get xmrig to mine #xmr only with half of the cpus? (¬_¬")

mining xmr with p2pool/xmrig

Does listening to Midi files with the soundfont of the good old SoundBlaster AWE64 and really really enjoying this make me an autist? 🤔 PASSPORT.MID JAZZ_-_STYLES#2.MID

Pop!_IS has been my favorite Linux distro for many years - and it still is (I don't want to get involved into Linux Distro wars - so please don't recommend distro XYZ). But as cool and shiny the new Cosmic desktop environment looks, it is annoying me. It lacks basic and functional features (easy things like a "show desktop" icon, a file menu at the dock, a capslock- and numlock indicator, move window to workspace 2 by just dragging) and since GNOME isn't underlying anymore I cannot add those features using gnome extensions. I also still haven't made my peace with Wayland. The mouse/cursor interaction always behaves kind of unnatural. It lags and feels like it's being accelerated even though the acceleration has been turned off. Maybe as a gamer I might be just nitpicky, but I don't know. Thus I always end up using good old xfce4 with good old x11. Even gaming on xfce4 works perfectly well when you just disable the compositor before starting the game (it's just a mouse-click). Does anyone feel the same? How insecure is x11 in practice when compared to Wayland?

And how it was in 2013 View quoted note →

Bitcoiners in 2026 😂

Spätrömische Dekadenz

**SHORT INSTRUCTION ON HOW TO USE LIGHTNING PRIVATELY** Hopefully clear and succinct. Follow these 5 steps: 1. Don't use UTXOs which are tied to your identity. So, coinjoin first! You can use any coinjoin implementation that helps, like Ashigaru's Whirlpool, Wasabi, Joinmarket or maybe even the newer ones like Joinstr which I haven't tried yet. 2. Send the coinjoined funds to an on-chain address which your LN Wallet provides. Now open an unannounced channel. Wallets like Zeus, Blixt and Phoenix will open unannounced channels by default and depending on which wallet you have chosen it will be done automatically for you. 3. Just spend, but be aware that, if you use Wallets like Phoenix, Phoenix will know your payments destination, thus I recommend Zeus or Blixt. 4. If you really have to receive, enable "Blinded Paths" if available. It may or may not work. If it doesn't work, receive anyway. 5. When you emptied your LN wallet, just delete it! Set up a new LN wallet to get rid of your static node identifier. Go back to step 1 and repeat. --- Last but not least, some hints and a warning: - running your own LN Node (easily done with Raspiblitz for example) will always give you the best privacy - use Tor or at least a trustful VPN provider - wallets like Blixt don't use Electrum but Neutrino for scanning the Blockchain. You can connect to your own Neutrino server here as well. Make your own node ready for Neutrino by pasting these lines into the bitcoin[dot]conf file: _blockfilterindex=1_ _peerblockfilterindex=1_ The building of the filter index may take up a couple of hours or half a day. After it's done, type the following in the terminal: _bitcoin-cli -netinfo 4_ Pick the address with the port 8333 and paste it into Blixt. --- ⚠️ **Important caveat** Be aware that the on-chain-address which Phoenix provided isn't controlled by you! Phoenix is briefly taking your coin into custody until the swap is done, but it is also possible that your coin may get flagged and frozen by Phoenix. If you want to avoid this, use wallets like @ZEUS where you really control the on-chain address and open the channel manually. I hope it helps. Feel free to ask, criticize or add some more information which I may have missed.

Makes me even more bullish on Monero. Once upon a time, they shit themselves when they heard "Bitcoin". Yeah... View quoted note →

Can anyone help me out? Why do I miss IRC so much? Is it really just "Nostalgia"? How do you feel about it?

The bridges are being torn down now. Be careful.

Concerning ecash, I was skeptical from the beginning and often expressed my doubt here on Nostr. People who follow me already know that. Nonetheless I was open enough to give it a try, but after years of testing and using ecash I came to the conclusion that, all in all, it really is a backward step for Bitcoin and a waste of time. To this day it's been the only layer I continuously lost money on. Besides, I cannot count how often I had to dox myself just to contact mint operators again and again to tell them that their mint is down (often they didn't even know it up to that point) or to report bugs to developers. Sometimes it was just Lightning things that caused failed payments / redemptions. You know, things that never happen on Bitcoin (the 1st layer), which I began to appreciate more and more with all the tradeoffs and complexities we introduced. Last but not least, if you are OG enough, you know that you can already have a "bearer token" experience on Bitcoin. And it really doesn't cost you more than ten cuckbuck cents right now. You just export the private key and hand over the private key to the payee. Good wallets like Ashigaru and even Blue Wallet can handle bare private keys pretty well by just sweeping the funds to the payee's next unused address. That,'s it. No tradeoffs. No rugpull-risks. No middlemen. No sleepless nights. It's reliable and simple. The tradeoffs - introducing this kind of complexity, 3rd parties and most importantly, giving up custody - aren't ones that I'm willing to make anymore. In fact to me these are exactly the issues of the legacy financial system that Bitcoin was supposed to fix. I have no more interest in ecash.

If in 2026 your fancy new mobile Bitcoin Wallet still a) connects to a public electrum server without asking me first if I want to use my own or a friend's one and / or b. doesn't have a tor daemon built in which is enabled by default I won't use it and I will give a damn how shiny it looks. Now seriously, you get that this would be such a big win for privacy and wouldn't take a lot of effort to get implemented? I'm not even talking about hiding addresses or amounts. And I'm not speaking for myself here but for the normies out there. There is practically no mobile Bitcoin wallet out there which fulfills those criteria (except for Ashigaru maybe). Defaults matter guys. And unfortunately Bitcoin has very bad defaults. At this point I'm not sure anymore if I would recommend using Bitcoin to the average Joe out there, let alone activist and dissidents. So disappointing. No wonder that Monero is gaining ground.