If you run a real business with Bitcoin, and deal with a ton of people, most of them are going to do business with exchanges even if you don’t. There’s no way to bridge a transparent ledger to general society and the mainstream financial system without censorship, and the counterparties, even if they are not hostile to Bitcoin, are going to have to go buy some. “Don’t use exchanges, they are evil.” Is basically saying “I live in an autistic fantasy world and want to jerk off to math.”
weev
Oct 1, 2026 14:12
If you run a real business with Bitcoin, and deal with a ton of people, most of them are going to do business with exchanges even if you don’t. There’s no way to bridge a transparent ledger to general society and the mainstream financial system without censorship, and the counterparties, even if they are not hostile to Bitcoin, are going to have to go buy some. “Don’t use exchanges, they are evil.” Is basically saying “I live in an autistic fantasy world and want to jerk off to math.”
If you haven’t ever heard of an exchange freezing Bitcoin deposits you live in a complete bubble. It’s extremely common. Coinbase is notorious for it.
no interoperability on such a basic level sucks. If it doesn't make sense to you, all of nostr should know and not just on a side note.
This somewhat describes my situation. I do not have a bank account. I am banned from financial services. I, however, do not use Bitcoin. Sending me Bitcoin or receiving Bitcoin from me has been a way that a lot of people have had funds frozen and exchange accounts closed. Bitcoin is not fungible, and is therefore not a good medium of exchange for those that are targeted for political reasons by people that have control over the financial system. Bitcoin is actually worthless in that regard.
weev
Sep 30, 2026 09:16
This somewhat describes my situation. I do not have a bank account. I am banned from financial services. I, however, do not use Bitcoin. Sending me Bitcoin or receiving Bitcoin from me has been a way that a lot of people have had funds frozen and exchange accounts closed. Bitcoin is not fungible, and is therefore not a good medium of exchange for those that are targeted for political reasons by people that have control over the financial system. Bitcoin is actually worthless in that regard.
I want you to know, Wes, that I would have liked to keep using Bitcoin. Satoshi wanted for Bitcoin to be fungible via base layer ring signatures on the L1. He said explicitly of ledger privacy, “If a solution was found, a much better, easier, more convenient implementation of Bitcoin would be possible.” Exact quote:
He also describes a ring signatures scheme in the comments, which is the mechanism Monero uses for its privacy. Well, the solution has long been found and implemented in Monero. But Bitcoin Core is now captured by institutional subversives, Saylor and Blackrock, that say ledger privacy cannot be implemented because it will cause problems for institutional acquisitions. Even though fungibility is a basic property of money. The vast majority of small denomination bills have cocaine on them if carefully tested! They’ve all been a party to drug transactions in the past! I don’t like drug dealers, but Bitcoins that have been a party to a drug transaction can get your exchange account frozen. That’s not a fair or equitable system, and means that Bitcoin will be inherently less functional than fiat forever if it has a transparent ledger.
People that are actually deplatformed from financial services, like me (I am a real person, you can search my name and find me on wikipedia or whatever) do not use Bitcoin. Bitcoin is absolutely worthless for those of us who aren’t allowed to have bank accounts. Most of us exclusively use Monero, though I also like Tari. And I like the theory of Pirate Chain. But of these, only Monero is a real economy with liquidity.
I want you to know, Wes, that I would have liked to keep using Bitcoin. Satoshi wanted for Bitcoin to be fungible via base layer ring signatures on the L1. He said explicitly of ledger privacy, "If a solution was found, a much better, easier, more convenient implementation of Bitcoin would be possible.” Exact quote:bitcointalk.orgDiscussNot a suggestionHe also describes a ring signatures scheme in the comments, which is the mechanism Monero uses for its privacy. Well, the solution has long been found and implemented in Monero. But Bitcoin Core is now captured by institutional subversives, Saylor and Blackrock, that say ledger privacy cannot be implemented because it will cause problems for institutional acquisitions. Even though fungibility is a basic property of money. The vast majority of small denomination bills have cocaine on them if carefully tested! They’ve all been a party to drug transactions in the past! I don’t like drug dealers, but Bitcoins that have been a party to a drug transaction can get your exchange account frozen. That’s not a fair or equitable system, and means that Bitcoin will be inherently less functional than fiat forever if it has a transparent ledger.
weev
Sep 30, 2026 09:16
This somewhat describes my situation. I do not have a bank account. I am banned from financial services. I, however, do not use Bitcoin. Sending me Bitcoin or receiving Bitcoin from me has been a way that a lot of people have had funds frozen and exchange accounts closed. Bitcoin is not fungible, and is therefore not a good medium of exchange for those that are targeted for political reasons by people that have control over the financial system. Bitcoin is actually worthless in that regard.
I want you to know, Wes, that I would have liked to keep using Bitcoin. Satoshi wanted for Bitcoin to be fungible via base layer ring signatures on the L1. He said explicitly of ledger privacy, “If a solution was found, a much better, easier, more convenient implementation of Bitcoin would be possible.” Exact quote:
He also describes a ring signatures scheme in the comments, which is the mechanism Monero uses for its privacy. Well, the solution has long been found and implemented in Monero. But Bitcoin Core is now captured by institutional subversives, Saylor and Blackrock, that say ledger privacy cannot be implemented because it will cause problems for institutional acquisitions. Even though fungibility is a basic property of money. The vast majority of small denomination bills have cocaine on them if carefully tested! They’ve all been a party to drug transactions in the past! I don’t like drug dealers, but Bitcoins that have been a party to a drug transaction can get your exchange account frozen. That’s not a fair or equitable system, and means that Bitcoin will be inherently less functional than fiat forever if it has a transparent ledger.
People that are actually deplatformed from financial services, like me (I am a real person, you can search my name and find me on wikipedia or whatever) do not use Bitcoin. Bitcoin is absolutely worthless for those of us who aren’t allowed to have bank accounts. Most of us exclusively use Monero, though I also like Tari. And I like the theory of Pirate Chain. But of these, only Monero is a real economy with liquidity.
bankers PUT DILDO in ur ass slowly too - mainnet is overpowered by deriv
AI capabilities (and propensities?) for achieving large, ambitious, and misaligned objectives are growing faster than our ability to understand what these agents are doing
maxis are like locusts who will move in and consume all the resources to make useless Bitcoin Ponzi schemes and VC bonfires and then move on
weev
Aug 26, 2026 03:01
Fiatjaf isn’t a maxi at all. He personally vocally supports the eCash fork with drivechains, which maxis hate. He opposes Lightning vocally as well. You’re barking up the wrong tree here. I agree completely that too much focus has been given to Lightning and zaps, as a result of Matt Odell coming along with Jack Dorsey’s money to shit up the place. I think we can absolutely do better. But maxis are like locusts who will move in and consume all the resources to make useless Bitcoin Ponzi schemes and VC bonfires and then move on. It’s up to the people that come after to till the land and make something good, and a ton of the people responsible for this situation have fucked off back to Twitter.
Once you adjust for purchasing power, the EU and the USA are roughly even for the entire time span between 2007 and 2024.paulkrugman.substack.comDiscussEurope v America: Who’s Really Winning?Paul KrugmanIn other words, the US economy grew largely due to a handful of tech companies. The gains of that growth went directly to the owners of those companies and indirectly to the users of their products (just as likely to be in the EU as the USA or anywhere else). Americans didn't become better off just because Amazon had some good years. Everyone using Amazon products became better off and the Amazon shareholders became much better off.
Laeserin
Aug 11, 2026 07:12
Most people don’t understand that the economy growing overall doesn’t say much about the quality of life for individual people. Denmark and Germany are not worse places to live than Bulgaria or the USA, respectively, merely because their economies grew more slowly. Also, the smaller and weaker an economy is, the faster and easier it will grow once stimulated (such as with Euro entry) or liberated / gaining market entry. That is why Germany had the massive Wirtschaftswunder after WWII.
Once you adjust for purchasing power, the EU and the USA are roughly even for the entire time span between 2007 and 2024.
In other words, the US economy grew largely due to a handful of tech companies. The gains of that growth went directly to the owners of those companies and indirectly to the users of their products (just as likely to be in the EU as the USA or anywhere else). Americans didn’t become better off just because Amazon had some good years. Everyone using Amazon products became better off and the Amazon shareholders became much better off.
All you have to do is travel between Bavaria and Texas (two of the best places in Germany and the USA, with the same low 4% unemployment and beautiful nature and warm climates and delicious food and drink), and stay in normal people’s houses and shop in normal grocery stores, to see that Texans don’t have a higher living standard than Bavarians. Even in the countryside, rents, groceries, utilities, education, gasoline, insurance, absolutely everything costs way more than here. And people commonly have a gigantic SUV or truck, but then they drive over an hour to their workplace, one way. Often with no vacation, no sick leave, etc.
What the GDP does tell us is that the USA has much more economic power/leverage than the EU, as they completely dominate the fastest-growing sector. At least, until the Chinese catch up.
Some of the attack vectors:
Closed-source secure elements with opaque behavior.
nvk literally invited me to his house with his *neighbour* miljan and their investor odell and tried to bring me into their little scammy cabal
jb55
May 21, 2026 16:14
nvk literally invited me to his house with his neighbour miljan and their investor odell and tried to bring me into their little scammy cabal. Clown face me all you want retard.
The fate of this fork will be exactly the fate of all attempted forks to date : the savvy Bitcoin holders will sell their fake-Bitcoins on the fake network, while double-spending (and thus invalidating) their sale on the actual network, thereby keeping their actual Bitcoin safe. The proceeds of this "victimless" crime will be used to purchase more legitimate Bitcoins on the legitimate network, thus draining away value from the holders of Bitcoin fakes, into the pockets of the legitimate Bitcoin holders. Which of these two do you wish to be... well... now that you consider the matter, it's pretty obvious, right ? Certainly, not all will consider the matter, but if your morals are in their right place you will at least let them know, if you can get to them.
You cannot read a hundred excellent programs and absorb the judgement by osmosis, any more than you can become a chef by eating in good restaurants. Taste is built the slow, stupid, humiliating way: you make something bad, you are forced to live with it, it fails in front of you, and some part of you files the failure away. Then you do it again. The palate is an accretion of your own mistakes, sat with long enough to sting.
Screens are non-negotiable,
seeds are non-negotiable,
secure elements are non-negotiable, reproducible builds are non-negotiable,
air gap is non-negotiable.
“Trust me” solutions are amazing temporary stepping stones.
There was a heyday in bitcoin where adversarial inquiry made hardware wallets better
A common misuse of the word democracy is to demand that every country align with US foreign policy. When they do not, the CIA is often deployed to topple the government. But there is also a softer influencing arm operating under the umbrella of human rights organisations.
Grimoire might not be the most pretty, might not have the best onboarding, might not be the most usable, might not be the lightest or the most native, might not be finished or stable, might not have a GIF keyboard, but it is the most important Nostr client.
Constant
Mar 10, 2026 14:06
look, i never used grimoire once in my life, but that is not the point, it is still the best client.
We need more l33t clients like grimoire
7fqx
Mar 10, 2026 15:41
We need more l33t clients like grimoire. We need to be l33tmaxxing and clientmogging the plebs.
spells are interesting
but the lens are marvellous!
More long-term projects. Less chase-the-hype. More listening and responding to users. Less get-rich-quick schemes. Less begging gazillionaires for a Big Zap, in exchange for something-something-Bitcoin or something-something-AI. More actually thinking up useful things and concepts for ordinary people, and taking the time and the care to build them.
Family and friendship and faith give men a sense of purpose. The job is there to feed themselves, and their friends and family. It is not a purpose unto itself.
Laeserin
Feb 27, 2026 09:29
Family and friendship and faith give men a sense of purpose. The job is there to feed themselves, and their friends and family. It is not a purpose unto itself.
If you want to build something, you don’t need a job to do it. You can simply build it. Find your own purpose.
This change is the first time I read some NIP-29 change and understood what I should do.
Here's what I think the real skill of the AI era is. It's not prompt engineering. It's not knowing which model to use. It's not having the perfect workflow.
It's knowing when to stop.
The tech industry has a burnout problem that predates AI. AI is making it worse, not better. Not because AI is bad, but because AI removes the natural speed limits that used to protect us.
After AI, my job increasingly became: prompt, wait, read output, evaluate output, decide if output is correct, decide if output is safe, decide if output matches the architecture, fix the parts that don't, re-prompt, repeat. I became a reviewer. A judge. A quality inspector on an assembly line that never stops.
Before AI, my job was: think about a problem, write code, test it, ship it. I was the creator. The maker. That's what drew most of us to engineering in the first place - the act of building.
ultimately all these social networks fight for network effects, and the actual tech is largely secondary. And for all the technical limitations, Nostr memed itself into some traction among crypto community, when boostrapping is the most important part.
For me Grimoire is a big deal, @verbiricha delivered an excellent power-user/dev client...if you have that set up the way you want, anything outside of the Nostr paradigm must feel frustratingly outdated.
nak + grimoire is my nostr dev environment, and it is delightful 🤌
grimoire helped me troubleshoot an issue in my app and was able to fix it
TKay
Jan 13, 2026 13:26
#grimoire helped me troubleshoot an issue in my app and was able to fix it. I like this client.
I took a break for a few months because I was building a house
Niel Liesmons
Jan 9, 2026 12:12
App is 80-90% there.
I took a break for a few months because I was building a house.
Now back on it in my free time.
Will publish to Zapstore once I fix a performance issue in the chat and comments feed.
I love Grimoire
Fabio Bonfiglio
Jan 7, 2026 20:30
I love Grimoire.
I use it now permanently for my daily feeds, debugging my Nostr developments, monitoring my relays, following the people I onboard on Nostr to check if they are doing right and helping them to set everything, etc.
Just a very small suggestion: When clicking on “Copy ID”, it would help a lot if the generated nevent... (or naddr... for adressable events) would contain the relay hint (1 or 2 of the relays where grimoire found that event) as well.
PRs are cheap, humans who understand them are not.
